Government & Policy

Also, India is seeking Google's help in creating AI and digital tools for building its digital health infrastructure.

PointClickCare adds 40 Texas hospitals with a new partnership. A Connecticut state audit discovers undisclosed health information exchange data breaches. Oklahoma backpedals on its data exchange mandate.

Healthcare organizations with fewer resources could use the new free and open-source tools to validate any artificial intelligence model and monitor its ongoing performance. "This is your cookbook," says Corey Miller, Epic's VP of R&D.

It will be patterned after the US Core Data for Interoperability standards.

The Productivity Commission has flagged the poor usability of the system despite substantial uptake from consumers and health professionals.

Despite the highest agency user fees on record, and granted new authorities to reform and accelerate medical device and biologics approvals, representatives questioned delays in getting products to patients faster.

While he praises the EU's data protection regulations, Eric Sutherland, senior health economist at the OECD, believes policies and standards must "harmonize" to ensure that public health organizations can access health data as needed.

Calling Blackbaud's security before a major data breach "lax," the Federal Trade Commission said the company allowed a hacker to steal PII and PHI, and ordered it to delete old data and report on its data usage going forward.

Temporary Medicare items will be in trial soon to allow patients to get admitted and seek psychiatric virtual consultations in private hospitals.

It has recently announced a $17 million project to develop a clinical decision support system for public emergency departments.