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By Jessica Hagen | 05:26 pm | November 08, 2024
The guidance aims to help countries move toward healthcare digitization through a person-centered point of service system.
By Andrea Fox | 09:19 am | November 08, 2024
In discussing social determinants of health data utilization, Dr. Hilary Hatch, chief clinical officer at Phreesia, describes how analytics and patient engagement tools are streamlining workflows and helping providers respond to more patients in need.
By Susan Morse | 05:38 pm | November 07, 2024
The expectation is for a new Congress to create policy around AI and cybersecurity, says Tom Leary of HIMSS.
By HIMSS TV | 11:29 am | November 06, 2024
Everett Wilson, healthcare regulatory attorney with Polsinelli, says benefit increases to MA, piled onto increased consumer expectations, are squeezing insurers' bottom lines, and that affects providers with risk-based arrangements in particular.
By Andrea Fox | 11:32 am | November 05, 2024
New data elements related to social drivers of health, such as referrals to social services, improve standards-based information exchange with electronic health records, it says. 
By Andrea Fox | 02:39 pm | October 30, 2024
The medtech company says it is the only manufacturer of FDA-approved pulse oximeters to have reached an agreement in a lawsuit against many over the devices' notoriously higher rates of error for people with darker skin.
By HIMSS TV | 04:07 pm | October 29, 2024
Yiannos Tolias of the European Commission's DG Sante discusses how the European Health Data Space (EHDS) will help developers access data to train healthcare AI applications that will benefit the EU's entire population.
By Adam Ang | 01:01 am | October 28, 2024
Subsyndromal depression is said to be five times more common than clinical depression among Singaporean seniors.
By HIMSS TV | 06:00 pm | October 24, 2024
Asan Medical Center continues to digitalise beyond the hospital confines by developing cloud APIs that connect with smaller hospitals, IT strategy team lead Wongu Yi explains.
By Andrea Fox | 11:54 am | October 24, 2024
Also:  New studies find commercial artificial intelligence algorithms developed for breast cancer detection may identify women at high risk of future malignancy – up to six years ahead of occurrence.