By Hannah Nelson
April 27, 2023 – House lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation that would reform the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) EHR Modernization (EHRM) program if passed into law, according to reporting from FedScoop.
Since 2020, VA…
The healthcare sector accounts for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. In order for the Biden Administration to meet its goal of reducing emissions 50-52% by 2030, health systems will need to get…
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Oracle announced Seema Verma, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will head up its life sciences division.Verma will serve as senior vice president and general manager for life sciences, where…
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The FDA has updated its recommendations for the O&M Halyard FLUIDSHIELD Surgical N95 Respirator Mask, allowing healthcare providers without alternative options to use this particular version of the mask for fluid barrier protection if…
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We all benefit from sharing our concerns communally. “What, you had the same problem I did?” We say to a friend. “How did you handle it?”
Intermountain Health, provider with 33 hospitals about 400 clinics,…
The agency recently posted new recommendations for AI developers who want to update their software as a medical device (SAMD). The document offers what we hope will be a less burdensome way to manage…
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By Mark Melchionna April 19, 2023 – Previously known as Opternative Inc, a telehealth company named Visibly, Inc. is facing charges after describing its services as accurate and fair without receiving approvals from the US…
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The following is a guest article by Paul Barnes, Partner at CWH Advisors
Today, there is widespread consensus that Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) have an impact on health inequities among various populations; resource scarcity…
Oracle Health this week announced that its Cerner Enviza life sciences division will work with John Snow Labs to develop a new artificial intelligence methodology to enhance computerized queries, or phenotyping, of digital patient…
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The US FDA’s Sentinel Innovation Center is partnering with John Snow Labs and Cerner Enviza, an Oracle company, to create AI tools to extract critical information from electronic health records (EHR) notes to improve…
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