Government & Policy
Healthcare organizations including ONC, Advocate Health, Mt. Sinai, Tufts Medicine, UC Davis Health and the VA are participating, and will share implementation tips and best practices to enable broader adoption of the interoperability standard.
TEFCA has potential to remove a lot of the friction around what it takes to achieve interoperability, a HIMSS23 panel said.
During a discussion at HIMSS23, panelists discussed the promise of AI while expressing concerns about its potentially unchecked evolution.
At HIMSS23 on Monday, leaders with the HHS 405(d) Program discussed how the updated Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices 2023 Edition and other new tools can help providers and public health groups mitigate cyber threats.
At the HIMSS23 Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, Nitin Natarajan, Deputy Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said protecting against escalating cyberattacks is a "joint effort" between government and the private sector.
The agency hopes the NPRM provisions will further move the needle on interoperability, expanding "appropriate access, exchange and use of electronic health information" with an eye toward health equity, said the National Coordinator for Health IT.
The partners will use natural language processing technology and de-identified EHR data better to help the agency research how medications affect large populations.
The Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization affected healthcare data and access, as well as other key privacy regulations, says Matthew Fisher, general counsel at Carium, in a preview of his HIMSS23 discussion.
The Coalition for Health AI's guide takes a patient-centric approach and aims to address, among other challenges, barriers to trust in AI and machine learning. It builds on the White House's AI Bill of Rights and NIST's' AI Risk Management Framework.
A HIMSS23 panel on biosurveillance to help public health officials in pandemics will feature Scott McKeithen, Marleen Welsh and Charles Baschnagel, who work at the Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office.