Weekly Roundup – July 16, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. Epic’s Take on TEFCA and Interoperability. Epic has plans to join TEFCA as an inaugural Qualified Health Information Network. This is obviously big news, so John Lynn sat down with Matt Doyle, the company’s software development lead for interoperability, to learn more about why Epic is getting behind TEFCA and how this relates to the company’s existing CareEverywhere and Carequality interop initiatives. Read more… Virtual Reality as a Tool in Medical Training. John talked to Osso VR co-founder Justin Barad and orthopedic surgeon Cory Calendine, MD about the key role of VR in training surgeons. Practice makes perfect, and VR training allows surgeons to get far more repetitions that they would in the lab. This helps surgeons learn new techniques while brushing up their stills on procedures they haven’t done in a while. Read more…  A New Use Case for Realtime Location Systems. Colin Hung spoke with Kapil Asher at Kontakt.io about using RTLS to help hospital staff under duress. It’s an unfortunate problem, as half of hospital staff need to call for assistance at least once a month. Staff equipped with a RTLS badge can simply call for help by pressing a button, saving t...
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