By Mark Melchionna
July 11, 2023 – Following adjustments to Utah law related to birth control prescribing, Intermountain Health created a program that allows pharmacists to virtually prescribe self-administered forms of birth control.
Laws surrounding the ability…
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By Shania Kennedy
July 10, 2023 – A new study published last week in Nature Biotechnology demonstrated that a deep learning (DL) tool can predict on- and off-target activity of RNA-targeting CRISPR tools, which may spur…
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By Sara Heath
July 10, 2023 – It could be useful for providers treating patients with dementia to encourage their care partners to create their own patient portal proxy accounts, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine…
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By Hannah Nelson
July 10, 2023 – According to previous KLAS Arch Collaborative research, EHR education is one of the most impactful factors in clinician health IT satisfaction. A new report highlights the current market for…
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By Jill McKeon
July 10, 2023 – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS)…
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By Mark Melchionna
July 10, 2023 – Following a rise in the prior month, the FAIR Health Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker reported that telehealth use decreased across the board, nationally and in all four United States…
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In my past life, I did a fair amount of medicolegal consulting. Although I don’t regularly work in that space anymore, I’m mentoring a young clinical informaticist that finds himself thrown into that space…
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By Jill McKeon
July 06, 2023 – The latest string of reported healthcare data breaches impacted small and mid-sized healthcare organizations. Two of the three breaches mentioned below occurred in 2022.
Community Research Foundation Notifies HHS of…
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By Sara Heath
July 06, 2023 – Implicit bias and racism in patient-provider communication are hampering shared decision-making, a new qualitative study in JAMA Network Open reported.
The study, which detailed responses from qualitative one-on-one interviews with…
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With laws such as the “No Surprises Act,” government has thrown its considerable weight behind the pressure on payers and clinicians to give patients good-faith estimates of the total cost of treatment. According to…
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