Government & Policy
Michael Needham, principal at Efficio, says the Trump administration's tariffs create uncertainty and indecision for business.
Proposals would require Veterans Affairs to contractually prohibit the sale of patient information and report on electronic health record workflow benchmarks, quality metrics and resources provided to VA facilities ahead of new installations.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has reportedly signed an interagency agreement with the Office of Personnel Management to oversee staff reductions in force of up to 80,000 staff members.
Charles Worthington, CTO and Chief AI Officer at the Department of Veteran Affairs, offers IT leaders at hospitals and health systems powerful advice for succeeding with artificial intelligence.
A trained surgeon and public health leader, this upcoming HIMSS25 APAC speaker has helped bridge public-private partnerships for digital transformation in healthcare.
The physician and software engineer will hold dual titles as Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
The technology, which has been deployed ahead of schedule after an "aggressive timeline to scale AI agency-wide," is meant to boost productivity for clinical protocol reviews, scientific evaluations and more.
More than half say that they're missing opportunities because they can't make decisions quickly enough.
America spends nearly one-third of the federal budget on healthcare, but life expectancy has declined and chronic disease is on the rise.
HHS Office for Civil Rights says a malicious insider exploited a vulnerability at BayCare Health System that offered "unrestricted access to patient health information."