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Cybersecurity In Focus
By Andrea Fox | 11:12 am | April 08, 2024
The agency says threat actors are targeting organizations' IT help desks with phone calls from a local area code claiming to be revenue cycle or administrator employees. After gaining access, they divert legitimate payments.
By Andrea Fox | 11:55 am | April 04, 2024
S.A.R.A.H. is a 24/7 digital health promoter prototype, available by video or text in eight languages, trained with biological artificial intelligence to provide health information, including mental health resources.
By Andrea Fox | 07:58 pm | April 03, 2024
The health system's new remote acute care unit aims to improve healthcare access and equity for eligible patients with daily clinical home visits and remote patient monitoring through its Medically Home technology.
By Andrea Fox | 11:51 am | April 03, 2024
Citing compliance strains on providers and others, and the need to maintain patient care continuity, more than 200 virtual care stakeholders urged the agency to release its regulatory scheme for the prescribing of controlled substances through telehealth.
By Andrea Fox | 12:58 pm | March 29, 2024
The Rewards for Justice program seeks information leading to the identification or location of any ALPHV BlackCat-linked cyber actor. The group claimed credit for the destabilizing Feb. 21 Change Healthcare ransomware attack. 
By Nathan Eddy | 11:44 am | March 29, 2024
Leidos' Partnership for Defense Health announced the deployment of MHS-Genesis, the U.
By Mike Miliard | 10:47 am | March 29, 2024
The new Office of Management and Budget policies will require "concrete safeguards" around the transparent and responsible use of artificial intelligence across government – including at the CDC, VA hospitals and other federal sites.
By Nathan Eddy | 11:59 am | March 28, 2024
The "outcomes-driven" strategy for the rest of this decade is focused on key goals: boosting access to electronic health information, improving the patient experience by prioritizing health equity and modernizing public health infrastructure.
By Andrea Fox | 11:43 am | March 28, 2024
In healthcare, larger hospitals, all critical access hospitals, essential drug manufacturers and Class II and Class III devices would fall under the draft mandatory reporting rules, but health IT developers and others would not.
By Andrea Fox | 02:44 pm | March 27, 2024
Washington, Maryland and New Mexico have leveraged funding opportunities and regulatory tools to ease the burden on providers still struggling to operate with claims payments disrupted.