Overview of Provider Tax Changes
The 2025 reconciliation law introduces sweeping restrictions on Medicaid provider taxes, fundamentally altering how states generate revenue for their Medicaid programs. These changes prohibit states from establishing new provider taxes…
The Privacy Gap in Wearable Technology
Senator Bill Cassidy, R-La., is leading a crucial effort to strengthen privacy protections for health information collected through wearable devices and mobile health applications. As chair of the Senate…
Rafid Fadul, MD, Co-Founder & CEO, Zivian Health
On July 4, 2025, the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) was signed into law. Its backers hailed it as a vehicle for growth, while critics called…
Continue Reading
Understanding the LockBit 5.0 Threat
The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing critical threat intelligence across the healthcare sector, issued a high-priority security alert on October 1 regarding…
Noam Solomon, PhD, Co-founder and CEO of Immunai
We were told AI would cure disease in years. That’s a fallacy.
Today, over 90% of clinical drug candidates still fail. It costs more than $2 billion and…
Continue Reading
Introduction to the No Surprises Act
The healthcare landscape in America experienced a significant transformation in 2022 with the implementation of the No Surprises Act, a groundbreaking bipartisan legislation designed to protect patients from unexpected…
Opioids are frequently overprescribed after surgery. We applied a tabular foundation model to predict the risk of post-discharge opioid consumption. The model was trained and internally validated on an 80:20 training/test split of the…
Continue Reading
Not everyone in cybersecurity comes from a traditional tech background—and that’s a strength.These HIMSS members share how they blended backgrounds in health IT, law, and compliance into meaningful cybersecurity careers. Their stories are a…
Continue Reading
News
OpenAI says that its newly released GPT-5 is its best model yet for answering health questions as an “active thought partner,” offering improved explanations of test results and health risks, better understanding of medical…
Continue Reading
Meta has been found liable by a Californian federal court for using sensitive personal data from period-tracking app Flo Health to run targeted ads.
Five women brought the class action law suit against Flo Health,…
