Mike Miliard
With large ransomware breaches up more than 260% since 2018, "the health care sector needs to get serious about cybersecurity and complying with HIPAA," says the director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
ChristianaCare and UAB Health are set to make the move to Epic, while Oracle has a new pair of critical access hospitals to its CommunityWorks suite and is looking "beyond the EHR."
The aim is to bolster more consistent use of the HL7 interoperability standard across HHS, says the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, and help "break down the silos separating patients, providers, payers, public health and research."
Both electronic health record vendors have made open API code available to their health system clients that enables them to coordinate with the VA when treating veterans who have sought care at community providers.
Lisa Stump, a clinical informatics leader, will serve as both chief digital information officer and dean for IT, the New York health system says.
Without policy changes, the DEA could curtail current controlled substance prescribing allowances by the end of the year – a "predictable and preventable crisis," says the American Telemedicine Association.
In a preview of the upcoming HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, Lee Kim, senior principal for cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS, discusses the responsible use of artificial intelligence in healthcare.
The qualified health information network says athenahealth, ModuleMD and Solace Health have gone live on its TEFCA platform, which features Carequality access, new security capabilities and more streamlined workflows.
"Tech CxOs' ability to insert their essential expertise into enterprise decisions will ultimately determine their organizations’ success in the AI era," a new IBM report argues.
The proposal seeks to promote more effective use of healthcare technologies by ensuring they meet standards and implementation specs adopted by ASTP/ONC.