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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As we continue to push the world of healthcare forward with innovation and digital transformations, it’s important to remember to do so safely. All of our progress is for naught if we can’t use any…
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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…
Mike Szczesny, Owner & VP of EDCO Awards & Specialties
Influencer marketing in the pharmaceutical industry is a complex issue with reasonable arguments on multiple sides. On the one hand, leveraging individual patients’ personal experiences…
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What Is a Rapid Maturity Assessment?
There’s a difference between a cybersecurity audit and a cybersecurity assessment. An audit will provide a compliance snapshot, especially as security regulations continue to evolve, while an assessment focuses…
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) keeps releasing new rules to address the urgent need for data exchange. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) was followed recently by the Health Data,…
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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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John Blair, MD, CEO of MedAlllies
Like tales of Bigfoot and UFO sightings, talk of Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) has been met around the health industry with some skepticism, with some in health IT…
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WHO publishes recommendations for governments on using AI for public health and medical purposes:
Give developers access to computing power and paid data sets if they agree to follow ethical principles.
Use laws and regulations to…
This far-ranging video examines the current uses and future prospects for AI through the eyes of two experts from UST: Adnan Masood, PhD, Chief AI Architect, and Anand Nair, Head of Healthcare Payer.
Masood pointed out…
