Government & Policy

This week's top stories include the Supreme Court seeming willing to keep the Affordable Care Act, Google Cloud unveiling AI tools for analyzing unstructured medical text, and Epic customers gaining access to a COVID-19 risk prediction model.

Citing patient safety, the agency says it has "significant concerns" regarding the electronic health record vendor's compliance with its obligation under a 2017 Corporate Integrity Agreement.

Ed Simcox, who left HHS in February, says it's time to create an information-sharing system that leverages modern technologies – before the next crisis hits.

The report surveyed 2,000 people on their attitudes towards advancing technology in health and social care and contains government recommendations.

The new initiative offers $100 million in network equipment and services for providers offering innovative telehealth and remote care services to low-income patients and veterans.

The initiative is an expansion of a partnership earlier this year to develop face masks and nasopharyngeal swabs that could be printed on production-level equipment.

The Combined Cyber Response Team will assist the University of Vermont Health Network in ensuring thousands of end-user devices are free of malware or viruses.  

A report on the NHS digital transformation says both bodies need to move on from the track record of failed IT programmes.

This week's top stories include Under Armour throwing all its weight behind MapMyFitness, HHS unveiling its 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, and CMS approving a Georgia waiver for a non-ACA marketplace.