Government & Policy

The Health Care Cybersecurity and Resiliency Act of 2024 would provide grants to help healthcare organizations strengthen prevention and response - and push for better coordination between HHS and CISA.

The Office of Civil Rights could have initiated follow-up after discovering security flaws, but "rarely initiated these reviews when it identified serious compliance issues," according to the HHS inspector general's audit program review.

The revised bill now leaves out provisions that would have increased Congressional oversight over the VA's EHR modernization partnership with Oracle, which is set to restart in 2025.

The Ministry of Health has secured their commitment to integrate patient data with the national EHR starting next year.

Oz will cut waste and fraud within the country's most expensive government agency, Trump says.

In its FISMA review for FY 2024, the watchdog agency said that the U.S. Health and Human Services was unable to meet managed and measurable maturity for core metrics.

George Pappas, healthcare cybersecurity expert and CEO of Intraprise Health, says HIPAA is just a baseline for new state regulations that include incident reporting within 72 hours.

The third extension of pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities through the end of next year will give the agencies time to promulgate final regulations and providers time to comply, the agencies said.

The president-elect says RFK Jr. will help protect Americans from "pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products and food additives."

In a letter to the FDA, members of Congress cite confusion over providers' deployment of clinical decision support software that is exempt from medical device regulations and call for clarity from its Center for Devices and Radiological Health.