Government & Policy
The House passed a bill to modernize the Veterans Affairs' claims process by creating an artificial intelligence tool to retrieve data, provide decision support, share information and generate claim-related correspondence.
The NOFO encourages states to facilitate collaboration between rural health facilities and larger regional systems to share resources, technology and services for their applications.
Threat actors used a number of methods to gain access to Salesforce, a CRM app commonly used by hospitals and health systems.
The timeline for creating, testing and deploying new required tools in electronic health records could lead to increased data variability and added administrative burdens, the trade group told CMS in comments on proposed payment rules.
The Democrat says the tech giant bears some responsibility for last year's Ascension Healthcare cyberattack, which affected more than 5.6 million people.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is said to be encouraging the use of generative artificial intelligence across the department and has provided login access to OpenAI's large language model tool.
The group says an "unchecked" model would undermine the goal of allowing safety net providers to stretch federal resources.
The region tightens rules while promoting commercialisation.
Sonja Fulmer, who had been acting director of the agency's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, is reported to be taking a lead policy role at the Minnesota health technology innovator.
Cybersecurity In Focus
Bringing in technical reinforcements and fostering staff buy-in can increase overall confidence that network blind spots – and compliance with new state healthcare cybersecurity laws – are being addressed, says one rural hospital's IT director.