Government & Policy
The guide, which encourages secure-by-design software development, is the latest in government efforts to shore up vulnerable organizations. It summarizes cybersecurity best practices and links to free support resources.
It will support major reforms in the sector, particularly the introduction of a new consolidated law.
As cyberattacks increase in scope and intensity, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies to do more to help health systems maintain operational continuity.
To gain insights into population health risks from aggregated data across multiple systems, the Electronic Health Record Association asks CMS to ensure risk standards are well defined under IPPS before expanding domain capture requirements.
As part of its annual renegotiation of the agency's EHR modernization efforts, three senators are asking the Veterans Affairs to add more opportunities to hold the vendor responsible for the quality and safety of its deployments.
Meanwhile, staff at the health system say they don't have patient orders and can't page doctors. As it works to restore clinical systems, Ascension says it's working with law enforcement and sharing threat intelligence to help prevent similar attacks.
New LEAP in Health IT money from ONC is meant to find and fund innovative new approaches to evaluating EHR data quality for machine learning models and driving IT adoption by behavioral health providers.
A harmonised European Health Technology Assessment Regulation (HTAR) is set to come into force in 2025, but the mandatory application of the regulation does not cover digital health technologies. The EDiHTA Project aims to address that.
Project Heal will track health misinformation trends and generate adaptable counter-messaging for public health agencies to use in their efforts to address false claims.