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All private hospitals in Singapore to connect to national EMR
The Ministry of Health has secured their commitment to integrate patient data with the national EHR starting next year. from News from hea...
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OIG again deems HHS' infosec program ineffective
In its FISMA review for FY 2024, the watchdog agency said that the U.S. Health and Human Services was unable to meet managed and measurable ...
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Case and referral management technology gets big results for St. Luke's
Among other wins, St. Luke's University Health Network has reduced length of stay for patients going to post-acute facilities by 0.3 day...
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Northwestern Medicine announces international healthcare collaboration
The effort aims to accelerate the London Clinic’s infrastructure improvements and growth ambitions while building on Northwestern's worl...
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Health system CIOs' strategic responsibilities continue to evolve
The typical chief information officer in healthcare is taking on more responsibility for determining strategy and digital transformation, wi...
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American College of Radiology launches AI quality registry
The goal is to give imaging providers a source for analytics on how their clinical artificial intelligence applications are operating over t...
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DEA and HHS extend virtual prescribing for controlled substances through 2025
The third extension of pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities through the end of next year will give the agencies time to promulgate final re...
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How to protect telemedicine from cyberattacks
A cybersecurity CEO offers advice on tactics healthcare CISOs and CIOs should use to protect sensitive telehealth data, and how providers ca...
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Blooms The Chemist integrates Healthengine and more briefs
Also, the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department has launched a new patient portal which already helped reduce duplicate records by a tenth....
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HIMSSCast: Caregiver input needed for allocation of investment dollars
Dr. Kathy Ku is vice president at Vive Collective, a venture capital firm focused on digital health. Kathy is an entrepreneur, an engineer a...
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Trump taps former Rep. Doug Collins to head VA
The former GOP congressman from Georgia has served as a U.S. Navy chaplain and is a colonel in the Air Force Reserve. He would inherit a maj...
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DHS intros framework for AI safety and security, in healthcare and elsewhere
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sees three areas of concern as artificial intelligence is used across critical infrastructure secto...
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Lawmakers ask CDRH to revisit its CDS guidance
In a letter to the FDA, members of Congress cite confusion over healthcare providers' deployment of clinical decision support software e...
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VA plans to end telehealth copays and fund virtual care access in rural areas
The agency is proposing telehealth access grants to establish fixed, secure environments outfitted with reliable internet and secure video t...
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ASPR seeks feedback on public health orgs' cybersecurity needs
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response will be surveying agencies to assess the readiness of state, local, tribal and te...
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Artificial intelligence is enabling big advances in surgery
From preoperative planning and intraoperative guidance to visualization and predictive analytics, AI has many new roles to play to help surg...
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Walgreens pays $100 million to settle class action drug case
Insured customers paid more for drugs than members of its Prescription Savings Club, lawsuit alleges. from News from healthcareitnews.com ...
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How virtual-first can improve outcomes and make care more affordable
The CEO of a telehealth services provider explains why patients being seen remotely by physicians first can also help with accessibility, da...
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Oracle seeks to address health disparities with new collaborative
By partnering with Meharry Medical College, the cloud giant says it aims to enhance community care and wellness in Middle Tennessee with AI ...
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ATA calls on Congress to beat the telehealth deadline, as it preps for Trump's term
The group expects support for virtual care to continue after the 2024 Election but urges action as soon as possible to extend pandemic-era t...
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China to pilot standards for virtual primary care
It will likely adopt the standards of Chinese insurer Ping An for its online family doctor contract service. from News from healthcareitne...
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Monash's clinical AI collab with India's Apollo Hospitals and more briefs
Also, Australia's aged care research centre has received additional funding to deploy AI. from News from healthcareitnews.com https://...
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AI-driven precision healthcare is here – what you need to know
Dr. Anmol Kapoor, an expert in precision medicine and artificial intelligence, discusses AI-driven genomic analysis, blockchain in genomics,...
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Regenstrief Institute appoints a new chief information officer
Chris Harle, a longtime clinical informatics leader who has worked as a biomedical researcher at Regenstrief and a health policy professor a...
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HIMSSCast: Digital tools can leverage SDOH data and improve outcomes
In discussing social determinants of health data utilization, Dr. Hilary Hatch, chief clinical officer at Phreesia, describes how analytics ...
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Safe and equitable AI needs guardrails, from legislation and humans in the loop
Dr. Tim O'Connell, physician CEO of emtelligent, offers his view of what's needed to ensure artificial intelligence can work safely,...
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Are genAI-produced visit summaries the future?
OpenNotes and Abridge want to find out, as they team up for a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center project to assess and develop new clinica...
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Google sets mandatory MFA deadline for all cloud accounts
The computing giant says it will phase its roll-out of required multi-factor authentication to all users worldwide next year.  from News f...
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ADHA to upgrade My Health Record maintenance
This follows an audit report that flagged its "partly effective" management of its contract outsourcing the operation of the digit...
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Can the ACO Primary Care Flex Model help link physical and mental healthcare?
Why are the two often so disconnected? And what role can technology play in integrating them? A  new CMS accountable care program aims to dr...
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Cyberattack roundup: Ransomware hits Georgia hospital and Colorado pathology services
Also: Kaiser Permanente reported that an unauthorized party gained access to the email accounts of two workforce members, and viewed patient...
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Royal Adelaide Hospital digitises cancer therapy prescribing
This is part of an ongoing project to replace paper-based chemotherapy prescribing across South Australia. from News from healthcareitnews...
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MedStar extends acute care at home to Baltimore
Through its partnership with DispatchHealth, MedStar Health is now providing care in patient homes after hospital stays, emergency visits or...
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Why won't this expert's clients sign onto AI projects for more than 12 months at a time?
Andy Sajous, a leader in digital transformation, explains. He discusses the tradeoffs of building versus buying artificial intelligence tool...
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Epic APIs move to USCDI v3
New data elements related to social drivers of health, such as referrals to social services, improve standards-based information exchange wi...
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How IoT is transforming remote patient monitoring
The combination of 5G and IoT could redefine remote healthcare, getting closer to a future where patients can receive hospital-grade care fr...
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Altera makes comprehensive Azure-based EHR available
Its single cloud-based database integrates emergency department, ambulatory, financial, revenue cycle and enterprise resource planning data,...
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Elon Musk suggests Grok AI has a role in healthcare
He has boasted about the accuracy of subscription-based Grok artificial intelligence for analyzing medical images, but physicians and resear...
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CAIOs must understand policy and business strategy, in addition to healthcare and IT
And cybersecurity too. "I would definitely encourage folks to go deeper into those other areas and broaden their capabilities overall,&...
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Chief AI Officer: Healthcare's hot new role demands a rare combination of skill sets
You can't just toss AI onto the CIO or CTO titles. Overseeing artificial intelligence in clinical and business environments, standing up...
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Vendor AI Roundup: Enhanced EHR offerings designed to give practices a leg up
Also: SmartDX launches tools to help hospitals overturn denials in minutes and recover lost revenue. from News from healthcareitnews.com h...
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Work like 'a beehive, an ant colony' to protect against cyber intruders
At the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Thursday, leaders from the Health Sector Coordinating Council offered advice for collaborativ...
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Medtronic dismissed from pulse oximeter lawsuit, FDA still working on guidance
The medtech company says it is the only manufacturer of FDA-approved pulse oximeters to have reached an agreement in a lawsuit against many ...
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Cutting through the AI hype to ensure investments have impacts
A healthcare artificial intelligence expert also discusses foundational first steps hospitals and health systems should take when looking to...
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OpenAI's general-purpose speech recognition model is flawed, researchers say
The AP reports that OpenAI's Whisper documentation platform is prone to hallucinations, making up sentences and sections of text across ...
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New Oracle EHR promises AI-enabled reinvention
Previewed at the company's annual summit, the electronic health record, built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, offers secure automation a...
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HC3 alerts providers of Scattered Spider threat
The agency warns that a Western organized cybercrime group that leverages multiple ransomware variants and AI tools to commit advanced socia...
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Premise Health scores big with data ingestion and analytics technologies
The tools have helped the health system grow demand for data-driven healthcare services, measure member attribution, and gain significant co...
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How FirstHealth is improving outcomes with observation at home
The strategy has had a big impact on patient access, bed capacity, and heart failure and all-cause readmissions – not to mention appreciatio...
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NHS to roll out radiology AI across 10 health trusts
A new partnership will provide access to more than 75 regulatory-approved artificial intelligence solutions within a single platform and spe...
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