The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday announced a new funding commitment designed to improve hospital cyber resiliency.The new National Institutes of Health initiative, Universal PatchinG and Remediation for Autonomous DEfense,…
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The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to do more to help health systems, health plans and other healthcare organizations manage the increasingly disruptive fallout…
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What You Should Know:
– The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), is seeking innovative solutions to advance healthcare through artificial…
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is offering new money for innovations around AI data quality and technology adoption for behavioral health.WHY IT MATTERSIn a new special emphasis notice under its…
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A new platform is being developed by several major universities with the aim of combating misinformation about healthcare and public health policies.It’s spearheaded by the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, UC…
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The American Medical Informatics Association is working with the Patient ID Now Coalition to persuade members of Congress to reject language in Section 510 of a 2025 appropriations bill that continues to ban the…
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On Friday, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services launched an incident command system designed to better coordinate care response in the wake of Steward Health Care filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and be…
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The following is a guest article by Troy Hawes, Managing Director at Moss Adams
The recent cybersecurity attack against Change Healthcare caused dramatic disruptions to one of the nation’s largest prescription processors.
On the morning of…
The U.S. Health and Human Services, in coordination with its Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center, published a sector alert to advise on mitigations to defend against spearphishing voice scams that ultimately seek to steal…
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While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun an advanced payment program for Part A providers and Part B suppliers experiencing claims disruptions from the Change Healthcare cyberattack two weeks ago, states are also…
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