Government & Policy

HHS Secretary Alex Azar joins the roster, which also features Aneesh Chopra, Karen DeSalvo, Michael Levitt, Mick Ebeling, Seema Verma and Susan DeVore.

The association called on government agencies to takes steps toward making data-driven healthcare more commonplace.

The private sector and government have accomplished a lot and the next phase is critical to the best use of APIs.

Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong delivered a ministerial statement on the Committee of Inquiry (COI) report on the SingHealth cyberattack in the Singapore Parliament on January 15 2019.

The document includes changes made due to comments from stakeholders and it contains new standards and updated characteristics.

Without proper documentation for government regulators, infosec protocols might safeguard data without meeting federal criteria.

Part of the NHS's new 10-year plan is to make the organisation a testbed for new health tech, such as the portal-like HealthTechConnect.

The agency’s Annual Report 2017–18 identified that “42 data breaches (in 28 notifications) were reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)… concerning potential data security or integrity breaches”, but with “no purposeful or malicious attacks compromising the integrity or security of the My Health Record system”.

One of the fast-growing sectors that have been identified in Thailand is healthcare and it is expected to be a key driver of the country’s economy.

Providers, patients and payers all still lack access to patient where and when they need it, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT said.