Government & Policy
United States Core Data for Interoperability Standard, version 4, a key resource for information blocking and interoperability compliance, is adding 20 new data elements and one new data class – facility information – to the previous standard set.
Threat actors are using artificial intelligence for both designing and executing attacks on hospitals and health systems. HC3 used ChatGPT to show how bad actors leverage generative AI to design spear-phishing emails and malware.
The electronic health record vendor was accused by the DOJ of "misrepresenting the capabilities of certain versions of its EHR software" and providing kickbacks to customers to drive new sales.
The CEO of CRISP discusses how health information exchanges, regional health networks and others are collaborating to build out the interoperability ecosystem and enable more effective sharing of critical clinical and public health data.
The health system is one of six institutions that will use advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning for a $52M NIH-funded phenotyping research project targeting acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia and sepsis.
The agreement supports the use of the World Health Organization's international classifications and terminologies in the HL7 FHIR community and will provide a testing environment and standards documentation to member states.
The move makes South Dakota the 39th state, along with Washington, D.C., to adopt the ACA's Medicaid expansion.
As many as 15% of 911 calls are for behavioral health emergencies. Some experts want to dispatch healthcare professionals rather than armed police officers for calls related to mental health or homelessness.
If a healthcare provider is out of compliance with CMS requirements, OIG says it may refer the matter to that agency.
Previously the executive director of IT operations and enterprise services at England's National Health Service Digital, Quinn has been filling the chief information officer role on a temporary basis.