The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy has released an update of guidance documents that healthcare organizations use to assess and optimize the safety of their electronic health record systems. The new 2025 Safety Assurance Factors…
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Cybersecurity: Life-or-Death in Healthcare
One cyberattack can mean the difference between life and death in modern healthcare. Weekly headlines expose the frightening reality that in today’s digitally-driven medical environment, cybersecurity failures directly threaten patients by…
Bipartisan Senators introduced the Health Tech Investment Act (S. 1399), which would establish a Medicare reimbursement pathway for FDA-cleared medical devices that utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning. The bill, introduced by Senators Mike Rounds…
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Healthcare Groups Challenge Proposed Regulations
Healthcare provider organizations are mounting significant opposition to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) proposed special registration framework for telehealth prescribing of controlled substances. Both the American Hospital Association (AHA) and…
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Amazon releases Nova Act, an AI model that can perform actions within a web browser.
An Israel-based medical advocacy group urges the health ministry to develop AI usage guidelines and enforcement, citing…
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– University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH) has announced a groundbreaking collaboration with global healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovator Qure.ai to deploy chest X-ray AI supporting earlier identification of lung cancers.
– The…
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The Looming Financial Crisis
Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid eligibility face a potential $80 billion loss in 2026 due to proposed funding cuts under the Trump administration. According to analysis from the Urban Institute…
The creation of the not-for-profit CommonWell Health Alliance in 2013 was a turning point for data use and interoperability in the U.S. health care market. Many of the largest EHR vendors, clinicians, and others…
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Advances in artificial intelligence are moving from machine learning models that analyze data to algorithms that can act on it with minimal human involvement across clinical, administrative and patient-facing workflows.Agentic AI, or autonomous agents,…
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REM sleep behavior disorder, or RBD, is a condition that causes abnormal movements or brief repeated twitching during sleep, and occasional episodes of dream enactment.THE CHALLENGE
RBD affects more than one million Americans and is…
