Two bills in U.S. Congress this year are expected to boost e-prescriptions. This article explains the complexities that makes it so hard to implement electronic prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS), summarizes the intended impacts…
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– The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced they are joining forces to invest over $20…
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What You Should Know:
– Chartis, a healthcare advisory firm, announced today the acquisition of HealthScape Advisors, a prominent healthcare payer consulting firm from Convey Health Solutions (Convey), a healthcare technology and services company. The…
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By Hannah Nelson
February 05, 2024 – The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have partnered on an initiative that aims to…
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The following is a guest article by Tom Magnotta, COO & President at Apixio
Albert Einstein famously said, “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” This quote lies…
Doctors and researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the UMD Institute for Health Computing and the VA Maryland Healthcare System are concerned that large language models summarizing clinical data could meet…
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– 23andMe Holding Co. (Nasdaq: ME), a genetics and biopharmaceutical company, announced The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the investigational new drug (IND) application for 23ME-01473 (referred to…
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By Sara Heath
January 31, 2024 – The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) was able to reduce homelessness by 55 percent over a 13-year period, demonstrating the power of integrating social determinants of health interventions into the…
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By Hannah Nelson
January 31, 2024 – While generative AI shows promise for EHR data summarization, using large language models (LLMs) to summarize clinical data brings risks that are not clearly covered by existing Food and…
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The Florida House of Representatives’ Commerce Committee referred the Cybersecurity Incident Liability Act (H.B 473), to the State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee last week.Introduced in November by Mike Giallombardo, R-Coral Gables, the chair…
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