Government & Policy
This includes a benchmarking platform for validating healthcare AI models.
Despite a greater ability for healthcare entities to challenge regulatory decrees in court, increased litigation could result in unfavorable court decisions that are harder to fix, healthcare attorneys say.
Confusion around CMS' final rules has been a challenge, yet the industry continues to advance seamless data exchange.
The investigation, billed as the first of its kind, had alleged that Dallas-based Piece Technologies made "deceptive claims" about the accuracy of its artificial intelligence products, which are deployed at several hospitals in the Lone Star State.
Both electronic health record vendors have made open API code available to their health system clients that enables them to coordinate with the VA when treating veterans who have sought care at community providers.
Petra Wilson, HIMSS senior advisor, European health policy and EU affairs, says digital health projects should find synergies with each other and build user trust to ensure sustainability after funding programs end.
To effectively share data with patients, hospitals and health systems must build a tech foundation centered on interoperability, driven by rigorous data standardization and secure exchanges – and the adoption of HL7's FHIR.
A week of discussion spearheaded by the patient advocate group aims to highlight the risks of harm from unauthorized access to healthcare information over the internet. There should be "no aggregation without representation," its leaders say.
Also, the South Korean government is deploying AI to check on solo-living seniors during the upcoming holidays.
Without policy changes, the DEA could curtail current controlled substance prescribing allowances by the end of the year – a "predictable and preventable crisis," says the American Telemedicine Association.