Compliance & Legal

National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi points to information blocking, API standardization and TEFCA as key factors in enhancing critical interoperability.

Josh Basile, community relations manager for accessiBe, discusses how developers can ensure their tools aren't presenting hurdles for people with disabilities.

Teladoc Health, IBM, Epic and athenahealth all signed on to support the proposed legislation.

Implementing a framework can be useful, but it requires resources – and healthcare organizations may face challenges gaining consensus over which ones to deploy, said a compliance expert ahead of HIMSS22.

The incident, which took place in August, exposed the information of about 22,000 individuals.

This week's top stories include the GAO saying data issues occurred partly because the VA did not establish performance measures and goals for migrated data quality, and AliveCor's KardiaMobile Card that is able to take a single-lead ECG in 30 seconds.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office found that clinicians faced challenges regarding the accuracy, accessibility and appropriateness of patient information.

More than 330 stakeholders outlined several steps for charting a path toward comprehensive telemedicine reform after the public health emergency.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced this week that the vision-coverage benefits provider had also agreed to enact a series of measures to protect customer information.

Former National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Don Rucker discusses what's next for interoperability and why he sees TEFCA as a "solid first step."