Government & Policy

A virtual care expert leads readers through the recent history of telehealth and offers tips on new medical services that can be delivered via telehealth while complying with HIPAA.

"We urge readers to immediately update all Apple devices," said cybersecurity researchers who discovered the flaw.

The funding will go toward deployment activities at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center and the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit.

The legislation, as passed by the state Senate, would expand access to telemedicine while disallowing business, state agencies and local governments from mandating COVID-19 vaccinations to access public spaces.  

HIMSS Media Editor in Chief Jonah Comstock discusses how the pandemic has changed the healthcare industry and other lessons learned at HIMSS21.

The funding offer for online booking service providers aims to increase digital bookings for COVID-19 vaccines.

With new CMS rules, researchers say electronic health records should be more easily configurable with ONC's SAFER Guide recommendations – which in turn should be reviewed and updated by the agency each year.

The agency currently does not allow payment for critical-care telemedicine if the physician is located outside the United States.

But another panelist at the ONC Tech Forum on Friday noted that those two terms are not necessarily synonymous.

Although the group claims to not target hospitals, HC3 says healthcare organizations should still be on alert.