The Health Care Cybersecurity and Resiliency Act of 2024 would provide grants to help healthcare organizations strengthen prevention and response, and push for better coordination between HHS and CISA.
The Office of Civil Rights could have initiated follow-up after discovering security flaws, but "rarely initiated these reviews when it identified serious compliance issues," according to the HHS inspector general's audit program review.
TrialGPT could help providers navigate the vast and ever-changing range of clinical trials available to their patients by finding, ranking and explaining why a patient is matched, the agency says.
The research shows how data integrity issues at every stage – training, model development, publication, implementation – can adversely impact patient outcomes, say clinicians at Yale School of Medicine.
Patients from five of the health system's hospitals will now have access to University of Utah Health providers and resources through the new community-based partnership.
Mark Polyak, president of analytics at IPSOS, and Dr. Lukasz Kowalczyk, a gastroenterolgy physician, offer a data-driven discussion about how patients feel about artificial intelligence, and how they want it used in their care.
Oklahoma Heart Hospital CIO David Miles and his team made it through in one piece. He offers tips for those facing an electronic health record switch, discusses staff resistance – and talks about what it takes to successfully work with a consulting firm.
The revised bill now leaves out provisions that would have increased Congressional oversight over the VA's EHR modernization partnership with Oracle, which is set to restart in 2025.
Improving the care experience through technology is at the core of the cardiovascular center's values, says its CIO – who describes how the two-hospital system uses patient feedback to focus on optimal care delivery, and has the accolades to prove it.
In its FISMA review for FY 2024, the watchdog agency said that the U.S. Health and Human Services was unable to meet managed and measurable maturity for core metrics.
Among other wins, St. Luke's University Health Network has reduced length of stay for patients going to post-acute facilities by 0.3 days. This decrease translates into significant bed availability and improved patient throughput.
The effort aims to accelerate the London Clinic’s infrastructure improvements and growth ambitions while building on Northwestern's world-renowned expertise to help enhance patient care.
What's more, the 2024 Compass Survey from symplr finds that 85% of clinicians say they lose more than an hour each day to administrative tasks – time that could be used for patient care if the right technology was in place.
The typical chief information officer in healthcare is taking on more responsibility for determining strategy and digital transformation, with 84% of CIOs now part of their organization's executive leadership team.
The third extension of pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities through the end of next year will give the agencies time to promulgate final regulations and providers time to comply, the agencies said.
A cybersecurity CEO offers advice on tactics healthcare CISOs and CIOs should use to protect sensitive telehealth data, and how providers can adopt a proactive security stance specific to virtual care.
Dr. Kathy Ku is vice president at Vive Collective, a venture capital firm focused on digital health. Kathy is an entrepreneur, an engineer and a former consultant. She holds an MD/MBA from Stanford, where she was a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, and an AB/SM from Harvard, where she studied engineering sciences and molecular and cellular biology.
In a letter to the FDA, members of Congress cite confusion over providers' deployment of clinical decision support software that is exempt from medical device regulations and call for clarity from its Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
The former GOP congressman from Georgia has served as a U.S. Navy chaplain and is a colonel in the Air Force Reserve. He would inherit a major EHR modernization initiative, currently paused but slated to restart in 2025, among other IT imperatives.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sees three areas of concern as artificial intelligence is used across critical infrastructure sectors: attacks using AI, attacks targeting AI systems and design, and implementation failures.
The agency is proposing telehealth access grants to establish fixed, secure environments outfitted with reliable internet and secure video that connect veterans hobbled by the digital divide to health services.
From preoperative planning and intraoperative guidance to visualization and predictive analytics, AI has many new roles to play to help surgeons do their best work.
The CEO of a telehealth services provider explains why patients being seen remotely by physicians first can also help with accessibility, data integrity and consistency.
By partnering with Meharry Medical College, the cloud giant says it aims to enhance community care and wellness in Middle Tennessee with AI and clinical applications, spark health innovation and cultivate workforce skills.
The new Veterans Community will support veteran workforce development and transition to civilian life for former members of any branch of the U.S. military and their spouses.
The number of telehealth services provided by Children's Mercy Kansas City is astounding. And they get tremendously high patient satisfaction scores. The health system's nurse director of telemedicine offers a detailed tour, with some key advice for her peers.
The group expects support for virtual care to continue after the 2024 election, but urges action as soon as possible to extend pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities past the end of the year.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has recently developed four large language models, including models for cancer detection and an AI chatbot for physicians.
Dr. Anmol Kapoor, an expert in precision medicine and artificial intelligence, discusses AI-driven genomic analysis, blockchain in genomics, multi-omic integration, and navigating ethical and regulatory challenges of AI-enabled personalized care.
Chris Harle, a longtime clinical informatics leader who has worked as a biomedical researcher at Regenstrief and a health policy professor at Indiana University's school of public health, will helm the IT and data innovations at Regenstrief Data Services.
In discussing social determinants of health data utilization, Dr. Hilary Hatch, chief clinical officer at Phreesia, describes how analytics and patient engagement tools are streamlining workflows and helping providers respond to more patients in need.
Dr. Tim O'Connell, physician CEO of emtelligent, offers his view of what's needed to ensure artificial intelligence can work safely, effectively and transparently in healthcare settings.
OpenNotes and Abridge want to find out, as they team up for a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center project to assess and develop new clinical documentation tools powered by artificial intelligence.
This follows an audit report that flagged its "partly effective" management of its contract outsourcing the operation of the digital health record system.
Through its partnership with DispatchHealth, MedStar Health is now providing care in patient homes after hospital stays and emergency visits, or through virtual healthcare referrals.
Andy Sajous, a leader in digital transformation, explains. He discusses the trade-offs of building versus buying artificial intelligence tools and describes some crucial actions CIOs should take going into 2025.
New data elements related to social drivers of health, such as referrals to social services, improve standards-based information exchange with electronic health records, it says.
The combination of 5G and IoT could redefine remote healthcare, getting closer to a future where patients can receive hospital-grade care from anywhere. And more user-friendly and patient-centered devices should drive broader adoption.
Its single cloud-based database integrates emergency department, ambulatory, financial, revenue cycle and enterprise resource planning data, the company said.
He has boasted about the accuracy of subscription-based Grok artificial intelligence for analyzing medical images, but physicians and researchers say the model's ability to diagnose medical conditions is limited, and privacy experts have concerns.
And cybersecurity too. "I would definitely encourage folks to go deeper into those other areas and broaden their capabilities overall," says the chief AI adviser at UC Davis Health to those who might want to tackle a similar role.
You can't just toss AI onto the CIO or CTO titles. Overseeing artificial intelligence in clinical and business environments, standing up a governance structure, and managing portfolios of tools for different patient types requires deep experience.
At the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Thursday, leaders from the Health Sector Coordinating Council offered advice for a collaborative layered defense to help health systems bolster responsiveness and stabilize their security postures.
The medtech company says it is the only manufacturer of FDA-approved pulse oximeters to have reached an agreement in a lawsuit against many over the devices' notoriously higher rates of error for people with darker skin.
A healthcare artificial intelligence expert also discusses foundational first steps hospitals and health systems should take when looking to adopt AI and how AI can be used to free up time and fight burnout for staff.
The AP reports that OpenAI's Whisper documentation platform is prone to hallucinations, and to making up sentences and sections of text across millions of recordings. Tens of thousands of transcriptions could be faulty.
The tools have helped the health system grow demand for data-driven healthcare services, measure member attribution, and gain significant cost savings from identifying and acting on key healthcare utilization patterns.
The agency warns that a Western organized cybercrime group that leverages multiple ransomware variants and AI tools to commit advanced social engineering exploits may target healthcare data.
EHR customers could take part in the direct sharing of health information – including X-rays and MRIs – between providers, payers, government agencies and others under the TEFCA nationwide interoperability framework.
The strategy has had a big impact on patient access, bed capacity, and heart failure and all-cause readmissions – not to mention appreciation of patients and family thankful to receive care safely at home instead of having to be admitted to the hospital.
A new partnership will provide access to more than 75 regulatory-approved artificial intelligence solutions within a single platform and speed up the development of the health system's AI-accelerated learning initiatives, say its leaders.
The Office of Management and Budget will consider HHS' approach to modernizing requirements for HIPAA covered entities charged with protecting ePHI against healthcare cybersecurity threats. Reports say the rule could be published by year's end.
From EHR optimization to AI-enabled CDS, big advancements are happening with biomedical informatics. Chris Harle, researcher at Regenstrief Institute and professor at Indiana University, discusses data science, provider experience, patient safety and more.
In what it's calling "one of the most ambitious initiatives in its 250-year history," NewYork-Presbyterian has launched a new $2 billion capital campaign that has advanced technologies and digital transformation as core goals.
Also: New studies find commercial artificial intelligence algorithms developed for breast cancer detection may identify women at high risk of future malignancy – up to six years ahead of occurrence.
With automation, turnaround times are now 40-45 days – way down from 90-120, previously. And before the tools were in place, the team was credentialing eight applicants per month – now that number is 35.
Healthcare operates with the understanding that no system is impenetrable, but must improve incident response practices by finding new ways to stay operational after network attacks, says one panelist at the upcoming HIMSS Cybersecurity Forum.
