Government & Policy
Infosec is a patient safety issue and it’s critical that customers trust you. But many health systems have been investing too little for years. It’s time for that to change.
Standards
AMIA CEO Doug Fridsma says healthcare should simplify its approach to data exchange: keeping a laser focus on worthwhile use cases, sharing first and standardizing later, while also taking some cues from the basic APIs that power the World Wide Web.
The scheme preyed upon hundreds of thousands of elderly and disabled patients, DOJ says.
The EHR vendor is also undergoing operational improvement initiatives, officials say.
Yesterday at the World Medical Innovation Forum in Boston, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma argued that government can often foil innovation.
Participants in the program will be guaranteed a two-year position at a federal agency.
The 2019 Federal Budget has come under fire as a missed opportunity to make meaningful strides towards modernising Australia’s healthcare sector.
The collaboration between Estonia and Finland was showcased in the newest issue of the HIMSS Insights eBook.
Gould, currently the director general for digital and media policy at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, will join the unit this summer.
Interoperability
The National Coordinator talks 21st Century Cures, information blocking, Apple, consumerism, FHIR, open APIs and new business models he sees emerging amid the "overarching theme of human choice and freedom and dignity."