Government & Policy
The commitment to telehealth from CMS offers medical specialties the freedom to innovate and provide better and more equitable care, says Dr. Robert Murry, chief medical officer of NextGen Healthcare and a practicing family physician.
Multiple awards for proposals to buttress digital health technology security, improve the fitness of healthcare analytics and strengthen healthcare software development are possible, according to the BAA.
Larger companies are taking an "all or nothing" approach in light of proposed legislation, one HIE leader says, but electronic health record developers can look to modernized data lakes for inspiration and place guardrails around PHI.
Episode-based payment incentives must be aligned across other value-based models, CMS says.
When Vanderbilt University Medical Center turned over non-anonymized medical records to the state without patient consent, it pitted Tennessee state law against HIPAA and unleashed a federal investigation as well as a class action patient lawsuit.
The developer's Viz HCM algorithm can be used to assess electrocardiograms. When findings are suspicious of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the app alerts cardiology specialists to provide further triage.
New York's HEALTHeLINK and Boston Children's Hospital are recognized by HHS for their exploration of advanced FHIR capabilities and USCDI data quality improvement, respectively.
A new study looked at how AI and NLP could be used in a post-acute discharge patient engagement program to address factors beyond social determinants of health and address emotional, behavioral and other barriers to recovery.
With a cohort of health systems including Mayo Clinic, Kaiser, Stanford Health and others, its QHIN efforts are aimed at advancing information exchange at providers nationwide, says Matt Doyle, interoperability software development lead at Epic.
The Behavioral Health Information Technology Coordination Act would also direct ONC and SAMHSA to develop voluntary standards for mental health electronic health records and work with CMS to promote their adoption and interoperability.