Andrea Fox
The government relations team at HIMSS offers some insights on what's next for telehealth, broadband expansion, interoperability rules and more in the year ahead.
While more data is still needed to reveal if mandated compliance programs decrease opioid prescription diversion and doctor shopping, new ONC studies show "substantial growth" in the use of EPCS and "widespread use" of PDMPs in 2021.
While acknowledging that securing access to data is a shared goal, the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association suggests ONC's interoperability framework does not consider existing controls, or certain business standards and workflows.
The agency says bad actors are sending infected files disguised to look like medical documents and requesting medical appointments. Telemedicine increases the likelihood that malicious images and information would be reviewed ahead of telehealth visits.
The institute examined the continued impact of ransomware attacks on patient care and asked healthcare IT professionals to evaluate their use of benchmarking in making their cybersecurity program decisions.
Experiences for both groups are often lacking, according to a new report from Qualtrics, which suggests healthcare leaders act quickly to put empathy into action with "meaningful digital transformation."
Toronto's hospital system announced a widespread network outage that resolved the following day. It's a stark contrast to a ransomware attack on the city's Hospital for Sick Children just a few weeks before.
The subscription-based service sends semi-customized supportive texts based on what users input about their experiences when signing up and without initiation.
A government-funded study found 27% of pediatric nurses surveyed reporting burnout. Those that didn't cited open communication and unit-level teamwork as key factors.
States reported high utilization of behavioral telehealth services across all or most populations served by Medicaid. Many reported permanent adoption of pandemic-era telehealth policy expansions.