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Provider productivity is the lynchpin of the healthcare system—here’s how to protect it during an EHR migration.

Pew’s director of HIT Ben Moscovitch says consumers prefer biometrics, notably fingerprinting, facial recognition and iris scans, for a unique identifier.

The industry is faring worse than others in complying with the European Union’s General Data Protection Rules, one expert says.

The current processes around many clinical information systems are “not patient or GP-centred” and is “highly inefficient and frustrating for general practice”, according to a report by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).

The health IT vendor also will discuss trends it sees on the horizon, including making EHRs more usable by expanding the availability of third-party applications.

GA4GH, with more than 500 healthcare and IT members, works to create frameworks and standards to enable voluntary and secure sharing of genomic and precision medicine data.

Also: Sensyne Health announces three-year research alliance with the University of Oxford Big Data Institute; local authorities in England are invited to apply for a share of £1m in funding for digital innovation in social care.

Infosec and IT teams should expect ransomware attacks to continue and that’s as true in healthcare as any other industry.

“At HIMSS19, we’ll highlight the shifts from retrospective analytics to predictive analytics, a health system chart to a longitudinal record and plan, and population health to personalized health,” a top Cerner exec says.

As Australia goes through the inevitable digitisation of hospitals, moving away from paper into the digital environment, data-driven approaches are key to informing system evaluation and redesign, improving flow through hospitals and delivering improved patient outcomes.