Government & Policy

The Department of Veterans Affairs has reportedly signed an interagency agreement with the Office of Personnel Management to oversee staff reductions in force of up to 80,000 staff members.

Charles Worthington, CTO and Chief AI Officer at the Department of Veteran Affairs, offers IT leaders at hospitals and health systems powerful advice for succeeding with artificial intelligence.

A trained surgeon and public health leader, this upcoming HIMSS25 APAC speaker has helped bridge public-private partnerships for digital transformation in healthcare.

The physician and software engineer will hold dual titles as Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

The technology, which has been deployed ahead of schedule after an "aggressive timeline to scale AI agency-wide," is meant to boost productivity for clinical protocol reviews, scientific evaluations and more.

More than half say that they're missing opportunities because they can't make decisions quickly enough.

America spends nearly one-third of the federal budget on healthcare, but life expectancy has declined and chronic disease is on the rise.

HHS Office for Civil Rights says a malicious insider exploited a vulnerability at BayCare Health System that offered "unrestricted access to patient health information."

Also, the Victorian government has announced over $280 million in funding to make its virtual emergency department permanent.

Reimbursement rules vary across the EU, slowing widespread adoption of digital therapeutics, though early frameworks in Germany and France are good foundations for future harmonisation and scale, says Louisa Stüwe from the French Ministry of Health.