Government & Policy

New American Hospital Report says that today’s problems also make it harder for rural providers to prepare for tomorrow’s challenges.

Pew’s director of HIT Ben Moscovitch says consumers prefer biometrics, notably fingerprinting, facial recognition and iris scans, for a unique identifier.

The industry is faring worse than others in complying with the European Union’s General Data Protection Rules, one expert says.

HealthlinkNY and HealtheConnections will leverage best practices and team skills of both health information exchanges to improve care delivery, officials said.

Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council issued a new report saying infosec demands cross-sector collaboration.

How an interdisciplinary kaizen group within CDC is charting a roadmap for future metrics to improve population health and provider satisfaction.

As the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT comments period drew to a close, a number of organizations weighed in about how to improve electronic health records platforms.

As suicides increase and the opioid crisis continues, Congress, HHS and others need to do more to enable data sharing for at-risk patients.

Also: Allscripts introduces new EMEA VP, MD role; NHS App programme director joins NHS trust; England explores the use of predictive analytics in reducing deaths from suicide; Eurostat releases new data on finding health information online.

Last week, the House Committee on Health in the Philippines House of Representatives chaired by Rep.