Mike Miliard
The new network, beginning with a pilot focused on cardiovascular disease, aims to help researchers in life sciences, pharmaceuticals and healthcare have easier access to aggregated data.
Healthy Alliance IPA, led by former ONC deputy Dr. Jacob Reider, will work with MVP Health Care to connect social services and healthcare providers via the Unite Us technology platform. The aim: strengthening community organizations, boosting pop health and reducing costs.
The alliance, which includes UPMC, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, will work with Amazon to better harness data for diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
Security
The new service from the standards development group will help healthcare clients optimize risk assessments, spot and fix compliance gaps, and manage third-party assurance needs, the standards group says.
Use of Direct messaging increased by more than 50 percent over the previous quarter and nearly 400 percent since last year.
Security
BlueKeep? Dridex? A state of emergency in Louisiana? Healthcare security pros find themselves living in interesting times. But with new threats emerging each day – and old ones, like phishing, not going away – some tried and true lessons are still useful.
Prat Vemana comes from the consumer world, currently serving as chief product and experience officer at The Home Depot and has worked at Staples.
The tech giants have made progress on the pledge they made one year ago, and plan to do more, they said at the CMS Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference.
The Blue Button API pilot, Data at the Point of Care, aims to connect clinicians with claims data, giving them deeper insights into their patients' care history.
Democrat Michael Bennet unveiled his telehealth-focused rural plan, which increases resources for IT investments; he also recently introduced a separate Senate bill to boost broadband in underserved areas.