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Tenet Physician Resources will use AI to integrate clinical workflows, reducing administrative burden.

Also, the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department has launched a new patient portal which already helped reduce duplicate records by a tenth.

At the helm of Taiwan's national smart health project, the National Science and Technology Council facilitates partnerships between university hospitals and the ICT industry. Andrea Hsu, director general at the agency, discusses.

Jill Brewer, market insights lead at HIMSS, previews a new report that finds third-party risk management to be the top challenge and vulnerability for health system IT leaders and execs – many of whom are seeking AI-powered threat detection tools.

Chris Harle, a longtime clinical informatics leader who has worked as a biomedical researcher at Regenstrief and a health policy professor at Indiana University's school of public health, will helm the IT and data innovations at Regenstrief Data Services.

In discussing social determinants of health data utilization, Dr. Hilary Hatch, chief clinical officer at Phreesia, describes how analytics and patient engagement tools are streamlining workflows and helping providers respond to more patients in need.

This is part of an ongoing project to replace paper-based chemotherapy prescribing across South Australia.

New data elements related to social drivers of health, such as referrals to social services, improve standards-based information exchange with electronic health records, it says. 

Eric Liederman, chief executive officer of CyberSolutionsMD, says developing an "all of us approach" on what to do and how to do it can help even advanced organizations protect healthcare delivery when ransomware hits or affects a nearby hospital.

Jonathan Bauer, CIO at Atlantic General Hospital Health System, says when Change Healthcare was attacked and Atlantic couldn't bill for a month, it helped bring the need for a robust cybersecurity system front of mind to board members.