Government & Policy

Using National Cancer Institute data, researchers at HHS looked at how recently diagnosed individuals and those in survivorship accessed electronic health information and also compared frequency against those never diagnosed with malignancies.

Emmanouil Tsiasiotis, project manager at Italy's ALTEMS, calls for healthcare stakeholders at all levels to join the EDiHTA initiative and help create a unified, sustainable digital health technology assessment for the entire EU.

The proposal seeks to promote more effective use of healthcare technologies by ensuring they meet standards and implementation specs adopted by ASTP/ONC.

The project recently concluded its first phase of implementation, which involves enabling access to My Health Record.

Leah Binder, Leapfrog's president and CEO, says the structural measure for 2025 will assess whether hospitals have a structure and culture that prioritizes safety in care delivery.

The state has taken steps to save five Steward hospitals after WARN notice announces closure of two others.

Epic is applauding the move, and says it expects that all of its clients nationwide will be live on the exchange framework by the end of next year, via its Epic Nexus qualified health information network.

This has already been a record setting year for cybersecurity, in all the wrong ways. Errol Weiss, chief security officer of Health-ISAC, discusses the cyber risks he's most concerned about and makes the case for cross-sector information sharing.

CMS said that if the new prices had been in effect last year, Medicare would have saved an estimated $6 billion across the 10 drugs.