Government & Policy

To protect the NHS' national critical infrastructure against hacktivists, major crime organizations and nation states, there needs to be further collaboration between key stakeholders, says AbedGraham's healthcare cybersecurity expert Dr. Saif Abed.

Chief Development Officer at Finland’s UNA Plan Pirkko Kortekangas says that data privacy is a priority, but sharing information is key when searching for medical solutions.

Romanian Health Minister Sorina Pintea tells HIMSS Chief Clinical Officer Charles Alessi about digitizing primary care, plans to reform the healthcare system and the concept of a digital hospital.

ONC’s Senior Innovation Strategist Stephen Konya discusses the Health and Human Services road show visiting American cities to give digital health upstarts and entrepreneurs better access to federal agencies. The next HHS Startup Day is slated for Nov. 8, 2018 in Cleveland.

Bettina Experton, MD, and CEO of Humetrix, talks about the history of CMS’s Blue Button project and how 53 million Americans covered by Medicare will now have access to their data through an API to ensure patient safety and interoperability.

Tom Leary highlights milestones made during the annual event and looks at this year’s NHITWeek points of engagement.

Advancing open APIs so consumers can better coordinate their healthcare is a key piece of the 21st Century Cures Act implementation for Thomas Mason, MD, chief medical officer for National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

When its EHR vendor wasn’t going to be ready until 2020, the IT team took matters into its own hands in a low-budget open source project that is already paying off.

Hector Rodriguez, worldwide CISO for Microsoft, says everybody in a healthcare organization must be involved in compliance now that GDPR is in effect.

Pia Heikkurinen, theme specialist, capacity renewal at Sitra, talks about the support the Finnish government is giving Sitra to back digital health startups and other healthcare innovators.