Compliance & Legal

The Department of Homeland Security may not use Medicaid data for immigration enforcement purposes and the Department of Health and Human Services may not share the protected patient information, according to a federal court ruling.

The new event, scheduled for Sept. 18-19 in Chicago, will focus on high-level insights for the C-suite. HIMSSCast will be simulcasting from the show with the Straight Outta Health IT podcast, whose host Christopher Kunney joins us for a preview.

AI will be banned for therapeutic decision-making, but will still be allowed for administrative and supplementary support.

ASTP/ONC issued three health IT certification criteria related to drug cost transparency and prior authorizations initially proposed in the HTI-2 draft rule, including aligning with certain CMS interoperability requirements.

Sweden's digital literacy is an asset in transitioning to the European Health Data Space, but the Swedish eHealth Agency's Gunilla Nordlöf believes success depends on building public trust and communicating the value of sharing data.

While the European Health Data Space (EHDS) won't fully launch until 2029, DG SANTE's Fulvia Raffaelli encourages EU citizens to access their health data through the MyHealth@EU platform and take charge of their care.

Thomas Hellebrand and Iman Merison from the Netherlands' Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport urge other European countries not to wait for EHDS regulations to be finalized to digitalize their healthcare systems.

As Europe implements the AI Act, HealthAI CEO Dr Ricardo Baptista Leite discusses the challenges around regulating AI tools not classified as medical devices, such as those used for drug discovery and population health.

An Advent Health hospital is seeking to order Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City to pay $2 million for denied claims related to documented diagnoses, and to stop using clinical validation models to deny payments.

Although the learning curve for AI tools is steep, MSD's Matt Studney discusses how the company guides teams through change management and how it mitigates risk with human-in-the-loop feedback and ethics committee reviews.