Jessica Davis
Telehealth
The bill gives legislative teeth to the agency’s Anywhere to Anywhere telemedicine program, including a clause that bars states from revoking providers who practice telehealth across state lines.
Privacy & Security
Consumerism. Patient safety. Privacy and security and enforcement and an increase in cyberattacks will be top of mind in the next twelve months.
Agency is looking to crackdown on fraud, waste and abuse and plans to create a program to prioritize how money is doled out.
Precision Medicine
The National Institutes of Health’s Genomic Working Group said researchers should build the program in a systemic way before reaching the planned 1 million participants.
Though the agency said it tried to align with HIPAA as much as possible, the framework blocks info sharing despite care coordination benefits.
Compliance
The legislation will also limit the number of opioids prescribed to patients for acute pain.
Privacy & Security
While Longs Peak Family Practice was investigating a Nov. 5 ransomware attack, its infosec team discovered another hack into its system on Nov. 10.
Workforce
Females represented more than half of 2017’s enrollees, which might not translate to more health IT leaders yet – but it will mean more women involved in other critical hospital leadership roles.
Privacy & Security
All of the company’s public-facing URLs redirected users to another site that threatened to release patient data if MEDHOST didn’t pay an extortion fee.
Privacy & Security
The watchdog’s biggest concern was the agency’s identity and access management at four operating divisions in 2016.