Government & Policy

Without prevention healthcare systems will be swamped. The Nordics' plans seek a balance, says Bogi Eliasen of the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies.

OCR's new resources aim to shore up telehealth privacy practices by helping healthcare organizations guide patients in basic cyber hygiene that can better protect their PHI when accessing virtual care through websites and apps.

CISA highlights five recently detected vulnerabilities to its KEV catalog and creates a new list of misconfigurations and weaknesses known to be used in ransomware campaigns, and HC3 warns about NoEscape ransomware.

The medtech giant signed a contract with BARDA to devise AI-enabled ultrasound technology that helps clinicians triage and diagnose lung pathology and traumatic injury. 

This year, 31 plans earned 5 stars, compared to 57 in 2023 and 74 in 2022.

The agency seeks to draw on outside expertise to "ensure we appropriately apply our regulatory authority in a way that protects patient health while continuing to support innovation," says the director of its Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

Certain foundations need to be in place and there needs to be proactive change management for successful AI deployment. Prof David Lowe, clinical director for health innovation with the Scottish government, illustrates this with current use cases.

Numerous telehealth flexibilities allowed under the pandemic will need to be decided on a more permanent basis, ATA says.

The software services provider to nonprofits announced it has agreed to pay 49 states and the District of Columbia this month to resolve investigations into a 2020 cyber hack and into misleading data breach statements made to patients and consumers.

Also: Chilmark Research publishes a new ebook offering tips for responsible AI deployment.