The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General will begin enforcing information blocking penalties today, which include potential compliance violations for “acts and omissions” and penalties up to $1 million.Info blocking,…
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Artificial intelligence faces many challenges in the healthcare industry. This week’s guest will address three: AI’s data problem, AI and the right to health, and what executives and clinicians need to know about AI…
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John Riggi, the first national advisor for cybersecurity and risk for the American Hospital Association, has been tracking cyber threats to the AHA’s more than 5,000 members, and helping many of them deal with…
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There is growing concern among some health tech leaders that they should perhaps take a step back to ensure the use of artificial intelligence – especially generative AI – is safe, appropriate, secure and…
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Covenant Health expanded its high acuity care hospital-at-home program in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Tuesday. WHY IT MATTERS
A suite of electronics is enabling patients from Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center facility and now Parkwest Medical Center…
Following conversations in Washington and state capitals, the American Telemedicine Association published its new Health Data Privacy Principles this week. They’re meant to address concerns about state privacy laws governing consumer health data, according to…
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There have been significant advances in non-invasive diagnostic technology in recent years, and the technology could transform medicine.Most immediately, transformation is coming from non-invasive blood glucose monitoring that frees millions of people with diabetes…
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Next week at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum in Boston, experts specializing in connected health, medical devices, internet of things and clinical engineering will take the stage for a discussion on “IoT, IoMT, and…
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Back in 2018, Healthcare IT News reported on how the University of Virginia (UVA) Health System, based in Charlottesville, had completed implementation of new reporting technology that enabled radiologists to create next generation reports containing…
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At the outset of 2023, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s analysis of interoperability and methods of exchange among hospitals, which looked at experiences and data from 2017-2021, indicated significant growth…
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