Government & Policy

A report on the NHS digital transformation says both bodies need to move on from the track record of failed IT programmes.

This week's top stories include Under Armour throwing all its weight behind MapMyFitness, HHS unveiling its 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, and CMS approving a Georgia waiver for a non-ACA marketplace.

Amid pointed recent ransomware warnings from federal agencies, some Massachusetts health systems have ramped up filtering for external emails or temporarily blocked them altogether.

The aim is to use the technology to track daily patient data and “plan interventional strategies in real-time to avoid complications of the disease,” according to findings from the Future Economy Lab workshop.

The artificial kidneys can be wearable, implanted, bioengineered, developed as a xenotransplant or chimera organ, or created using a different approach.

The fines are the latest effort on OCR's part to enforce HIPAA regulations around protected health information.

A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that about 1.6 million telehealth encounters occurred via four major vendors from January through March.

The software glitch is the latest in a long line of tech issues to have affected the UK contact tracing app. 

Global health leaders debated over the role and potential contribution of technologies in dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak during a panel discussion entitled: ‘How can digital tools help tackle a pandemic?’ at the Barcelona Health Summit, which was held last week (29 October 2020).

The document describes the government's hopes for how technology goals should be prioritized over the next five years – with an emphasis on patients' access to their health data.