Providence Medical Institute, a Southern California-based physician services division of the seven-state Providence health system, will pay a $240,000 civil monetary penalty to settle potential HIPAA violations after a ransomware attack.WHY IT MATTERSThe U.S….
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Hospitals and health systems large and small announced new plans for their electronic health record deployments in September. Two of the bigger ones have opted to migrate to Epic Systems, while Oracle Health has…
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This week, the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (formerly known as ONC), published its 2024 Draft Federal FHIR Action Plan. ASTP is billing the new document as…
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Subscribe for your weekly fix of health tech stories, wherever you get your news: Substack, Twitter, Apple, or Spotify.In this episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Mike Uchrin, Co-Founder and CEO of…
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A little less than a year ago, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs announced its Veteran Interoperability Pledge – an effort to boost information exchange between its own facilities and participating health systems, with…
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Healthcare automation vendor Vyne Medical acquires Extract Systems, which specializes in automated data classification and indexing, extraction, and redaction.
Vyne Medical will integrate the ML/AI capabilities of Extract Systems with its Trace healthcare workflow…
Mount Sinai Health System this week announced that it has named Lisa S. Stump to be its new Chief Digital Information Officer, as well as the Dean for Information Technology at Mount Sinai’s Icahn…
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With just four months to go until the scheduled expiration of Drug Enforcement Administration flexibilities on virtual prescribing of controlled substances, a long list of hundreds of healthcare stakeholders is calling on Congress and…
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The overlapping imperatives of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity are becoming ever more important as the two become more intertwined across healthcare in some interesting and challenging ways. AI, for instance, is more and more being…
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CommonWell Health Alliance this past week touted some news and new features following the launch of its new platform – with enhanced capabilities and new member companies going live with the Trusted Exchange Framework…
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