Andrea Fox
ASTP/ONC issued three health IT certification criteria related to drug cost transparency and prior authorizations initially proposed in the HTI-2 draft rule, including aligning with certain CMS interoperability requirements.
Innovaccer, Palo Alto Networks, Samsung and others are using artificial intelligence to improve patient access, enhance urgent care and home health with clinical insights, position mobile health data for consumption, and secure agentic AI integrations.
The Trump administration initiative brings together Big Tech, health IT vendors, and provider and payer systems in an API-powered effort to give patients greater control over their health data. Some have questions about privacy.
With Nvidia Blackwell architecture, the health system says it can further develop foundation models that tailor treatments to individual patient characteristics, analyze pathology images and accelerate the development of new therapies.
The cloud IT vendor said it now gives patients a no-login, digital identity-based access system to exercise greater control over their health data.
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The new plan directs the U.S. Department of Commerce to revise artificial intelligence risk management frameworks, which could undo protections that might be seen as "woke" in order to do business with the federal government.
The success of hospitals using a free PPH risk assessment algorithm and other tools that aid early detection and treatment of hemorrhage after childbirth – the primary cause of U.S. maternal morbidity rates – is driving a new tech integration initiative.
If the agency doesn't create a plan for remote-prescribed controlled substances by the fall, it could jeopardize mental healthcare by year's end, the American Telemedicine Association-led coalition says.
By tricking individual users into downloading a remote access trojan through a fake browser or masquerading security software updates, threat actors then use legitimate tools to steal data before locking systems down for ransom.
Nearly 40% of participating healthcare organizations reported that most of their infrastructure is on premises, but accelerating cloud migration is a top priority over the next 12 to 24 months – perhaps second only to cybersecurity.