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Welcome to the April edition of our newsletter! We are pleased to bring you the latest developments in the digital health ecosystem. This edition includes the following: 

• Recent News: Explore emerging trends and innovations in digital health.  

• Upcoming Events: Add key conferences to your calendar and engage with stakeholders who shape the future of healthcare.  

• Podcast Episodes: Listen to in-depth discussions on healthcare digitization.  

• Informative Articles: Gain a deeper understanding of digital health through new publications. 

Let’s shape the future together through digital health innovation, as always! 

OUR LATEST POSTS  

• We demonstrated how our Personal Health Record (PHR) solution makes personal health management more efficient.  

• We explained Health Level 7 (HL7) with a focus on our Health Information Exchange (HIE) Suite.  

• We asked our Quality Engineer about the importance of regulatory compliance in building trust across the healthcare ecosystem, who addressed regulatory compliance as proof of safety, performance, and clinical effectiveness. 

• We emphasized the integration capabilities of our Chronic Disease Management solution with external systems to incorporate water, food, air, and soil quality data. 

• We published a blog explaining the difference between an electronic health record (EHR) and an electronic medical record (EMR).  

• We held an interview with our AI Researcher on the role of Explainable AI (XAI) in healthcare decision-making.  

NEWS

• The New York State Office of Mental Health implemented a hybrid interoperability framework using HL7’s FHIR standard to address challenges in semantic data exchange. This framework incorporates terminology mapping, metadata tagging, and consent controls. The initiative contributed to a 10% improvement in data collection within six months. Read More 

• SNOMED International and its members announced the expansion of the Global Patient Set (GPS). Designed without SNOMED CT’s full semantic structure, the GPS provides an open and freely available collection of terms from the SNOMED CT International Edition to support accurate data exchange. Read More 

• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a new platform, FDA Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS), for the analysis of adverse event reports. The AEMS enables the display of adverse event reports submitted to the FDA for drugs, biologics, vaccines, cosmetics, and animal food in a single streamlined dashboard. The platform will comprise real-time adverse event reports for all FDA-regulated products by the end of May 2026. Read More 

• A new scientometric analysis reveals that the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), run by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), has supported approximately 3,800 peer-reviewed studies across 29 countries since 1988. As a not-for-profit government research service, the CPRD offers anonymized patient data from general practitioner (GP) practices across the UK. Read More 

EVENTS

• 14 April – 15 April 2026, Future Healthcare Asia 2026, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

• 16 April 2026, WIRED Health, London, UK 

• 21 April – 23 April 2026, DMEA 2026, Berlin, Germany 

• 21 April – 23 April 2026, Pharma IT & Digital Health Expo, Tokyo, Japan 

• 4 May – 6 May 2026, GITEX Future Health Africa, Casablanca, Morocco 

• 19 May – 21 May 2026, HIMSS26 Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark 

PODCAST SUGGESTIONS

• Faces of Digital Health - EHDS and Pharma: Impact on R&D and Unresolved Challenges 

• HIMSSCast - How AI Agents Will Reshape Healthcare in 2026 

• Healthcare IT Today Interviews - TEFCA, Bulk Exchanges, Government Agencies, & Healthcare Interoperability with Jay Nakashima 

• Talking HealthTech - Technology, Trust, and Transformation: Dr Heidi Baker on Modernising Clinical Practice 

ARTICLE SUGGESTIONS

• Barriers and Opportunities of Scaling Ambient AI Scribes for Clinical Documentation Across Diverse Healthcare Settings. by Joshua W. Ohde et al. npj Digit Med, March 2026. DOI: 10.1038/s41746-026-02554-0 

• HealthData@MAD-R&I: Protocol for Design and Development of a Regional Health Data Infrastructure to Enable Secondary Use of Health Data in Research and Innovation. by Montserrat León-García. JMIR Res Protoc Volume 15, March 2026. DOI: 10.2196/82815 

• Assessing the Representativeness of Single-Center EMR Data on Ten Cancer Types: A Comparative Analysis with National Statistics from South Korea (2011–2021). by Jung-Hyun Won and Howard Lee. Int J Med Inform, March 2026. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2026.106401 

• Barriers and Facilitators to the Implementation and Use of Computerized Clinical Decision Support Systems for Predicting and Managing In-Patient Clinical Deterioration: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Research. by Melody Saikali et al. Int J Med Inform, March 2026. DOI:  10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2026.106369 

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