Last month, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) finalized its HTI-1 rule. The regulations seek to boost interoperability in the healthcare sector and increase patients’ access to their health…
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Federal agencies like the FDA and HHS have established safety programs to ensure safe and trustworthy artificial intelligence use in various sectors, including healthcare. Digital health executives relayed their recommendations, advice, and suggestions for regulators…
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Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives…
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it will update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 and will ask Congress for new laws and resources to increase civil money penalties for…
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Guiding healthcare organizations through cyber insurance implementation, the HHS 405(d) program unveiled vital one-pagers. Stressing the financial shield cyber insurance offers against attacks, these resources cater to organizations of varied sizes. Addressing ongoing security…
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The use of AI in healthcare fills some people with feelings of enthusiasm, some with fear and some with both. In fact, a new survey from the American Medical Association showed that nearly half…
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The promise of artificial intelligence in healthcare is enormous – with algorithms able to find answers to big questions in big data, and automation helping clinicians in so many other ways. On the other hand,…
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HHS and ONC approve the final HTI-1 rule that addresses:
Algorithm transparency.
Designation of USCDI v3 as the baseline certification standard.
An enhanced information blocking requirement.
A requirement that developers of certified health IT report…
What You Should Know:
– The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released its comprehensive Data Strategy, outlining a vision for leveraging data as a powerful tool to improve health outcomes and…
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its data strategy to improve human health outcomes. The goal is to make data available, accessible, timely, equitable, meaningfully usable and protected so that it…
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