Andrea Fox

Telehealth and hospital-at-home coverage under Medicare flexibilities could end in days. An immediate temporary extension is the only viable vehicle to ensure they do not lapse, the American Telemedicine Association says.

The House passed a bill to modernize the Veterans Affairs' claims process by creating an artificial intelligence tool to retrieve data, provide decision support, share information and generate claim-related correspondence.

The NOFO encourages states to facilitate collaboration between rural health facilities and larger regional systems to share resources, technology and services for their applications. 

Patients of Epic providers onboarded to TEFCA can now access and share a single, real-time health record with HealthEx’s new service, and securely share it with any trusted third party, the companies say.

The timeline for creating, testing and deploying new required tools in electronic health records could lead to increased data variability and added administrative burdens, the trade group told CMS in comments on proposed payment rules.

The Democrat says the tech giant bears some responsibility for last year's Ascension Healthcare cyberattack, which affected more than 5.6 million people.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is said to be encouraging the use of generative artificial intelligence across the department and has provided login access to OpenAI's large language model tool. 

Sharing data is just the beginning of what artificial intelligence can do for healthcare, said Seema Verma, GM of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, at the company's annual summit.

Sonja Fulmer, who had been acting director of the agency's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, is reported to be taking a lead policy role at the Minnesota health technology innovator.

In allowing key claims to proceed, the ruling marks the first time an antitrust case against Epic has reached this stage of litigation. "Epic’s motion is granted in part and denied in part," the judge says.