Andrea Fox

A privacy and security expert discusses how small and rural hospitals can move beyond past IT mistakes and implement zero-trust strategies that quickly improve their cybersecurity postures.

The health system is establishing a new center for artificial intelligence to enhance diagnostics, personalize treatments and optimize healthcare delivery for adolescents – and plans to implement clinical trials at the Kravis Children’s Hospital.

The agencies' special telehealth registries will also be postponed with this latest delay of long-awaited telehealth prescribing guidance.

While the department says the contracts are "non-mission-critical or duplicative," several of those canceled in March were for veteran-owned businesses that were focused on the safety and integrity of the ongoing electronic health record rollout.

While healthcare organizations applaud lawmakers' support for extending flexibilities in FY25 stopgap legislation, they still have concerns about long-term certainty for virtual care.

Also, DrFirst earns HITRUST for electronic prior authorization, e-prescribing, patient engagement and other healthcare tools.

Artificial intelligence agents coordinating tasks across healthcare workflows were the talk of HIMSS25. In the year ahead, AI is expected to progress cautiously beyond ambient listening to effect new automation in electronic health records.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the organization will be reintegrated into the UK Department of Health and Social Care within two years. The agency pledges to reinvest cost savings into frontline services.

More tech companies, and the government, are needed to address rural healthcare cyberattacks, according to the new Microsoft rural hospital cybersecurity landscape report. 

Innovaccer, Veradigm and other companies are integrating real-time healthcare data, analytics and artificial intelligence-enhanced workflows into payer and provider systems to improve patient outcomes and care delivery.