Jessica Davis

HIMSS Senior Director of Congressional Affairs broke down how the massive spending bill will boost telehealth, Medicaid and other crucial health IT needs.

Passed unanimously by the House, the bill would require annual review of controlled substance prescribing patterns of providers.

About 24,000 patient records were breached when Decatur County General Hospital’s vendor discovered the unauthorized software was installed to generate digital currency.

A partnership with Philips’ eICU and LiveOnNY is helping the massive New York health system tackle the organ supply shortage in New York.

The health and IT veteran discusses how the industry needs women to embrace who they are to fuel innovation.

The agency should also consider directing those funds to areas most impacted by the opioid crisis, typically rural areas with poor populations.

Femwell Group Health Chief Healthcare Innovation Officer Geeta Nayyar explains why it’s important to make sure women have a seat at the table when making strategic tech decisions about patient engagement and other trends.

Women innovators from CMS, NASA, IBM Global Healthcare, Cleveland Clinic and Health 2.0 -- among a long list of others -- will share insights from interoperability to patient engagement at the annual health IT conference in Las Vegas.

The collective aims to give providers the full prescribing history of patients to reduce opioid misuse and abuse.

The first enforcement settlement of the year follows an OCR investigation of Fresenius Medical that began in 2013.