Government & Policy

The Homeland Security agency points to 13 vulnerabilities with the networked medical imaging and archiving systems that should be patched now. One dark web research firm says the U.S. and Brazil have the most internet-exposed PACs.

Some industry leaders are concerned about compliance time frames. Others say unstructured data won't be tapped to its fullest potential under the proposed rule.

The bill was conceived after the Change Healthcare attack which lawmakers cited as evidence of a lack of preparation and training.

The companies will further develop speech-to-text technology that takes healthcare provider's notes and can upload key excerpts to EHR-agnostic files, while the agency accepts feedback on the sole-source solicitations.

Writing to the health secretary and the deputy national security advisor, the lawmaker cited recent cyber hygiene failures by healthcare organizations and asked the agency to propose mandatory minimum cyber standards already under consideration.

Patients and their doctors can now access their digital health records from a single platform.

Another week, another leak of personally identifiable information and protected health information at more than one major health organization. This time, a critical access hospital and a department of public health are attacked by ransomware.

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is working to draw attention to FDA’s medical device regulation of light-sensing technology used to measure a critical vital sign.

In its new HTI-2 proposed rule, the Office of the National Coordinator is hoping FHIR-focused interoperability criteria will ignite payers and public health and others to embrace broader information sharing goals.

In a "tour de force" rulemaking, the agency has "harnessed all the tools at ONC's disposal" to advance HHS' nationwide interoperability and patient engagement goals, says National Coordinator Micky Tripathi.