Mike Miliard

The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act to allow employers to offer standalone telehealth service programs – not unlike dental and vision plans – in addition to existing health insurance plans.

Novant Health Enterprises will focus first on three areas: clinical transformation, expansion into non-acute settings and technology commercialization.

Dave Garets, whose four decades of experience in healthcare and technology included work as a technical specialist at AT&T, a hospital chief information officer, a management consultant and early leadership at HIMSS Analytics, died Monday at age 73.

The cloud-based platform will help drive faster and more efficient research by automating data management, enabling predictive forecasts and more.

Two are part of its Right of Access initiative – bringing the number of cases to 27 since the project began – and two stem from impermissible disclosure of protected health information.

Google Cloud's Aashima Gupta and Joe Miles discuss the future of hybrid care, what COVID-19 revealed about data silos and how technology can strengthen connections between people.

The new $550,000 program will help fund organizations pursuing new technologies and strategies for nationwide health data exchange and building new connectivity tools.

The deeper integration of ambient and conversational AI into Millennium will help "streamline workflows while enhancing the essential value of the EHR," said a Nuance leader.

There are still challenges to manage and maturity to build, but machine learning is helping uncover hidden insights and streamline workflows so providers can "use our neurons to take care of patients," said one at HIMSS22.

ONC chief Micky Tripathi spoke at HIMSS22 alongside Dr. Daniel Jernigan, the CDC's deputy director for public health science and surveillance. Both see long-needed improvements ahead for data exchange and public health reporting.