Government & Policy

Nearly $950,000 in new funding will help the Pennsylvania health system expand the 24/7 virtual care center it launched this past year, with new technologies for Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital.

EHRA, HIMSS and others cite regulatory variability and redundancy, as well as costs, as roadblocks to interoperable health information exchange, while ACR stresses investigatory protections for physicians.

2023 was the year marked by AI.

Techsomed's ultrasound-based liver ablation software can eliminate the guesswork typically associated with thermal ablation therapy.

A newly established research centre is building a chronic disease management system to enable access to comprehensive patient data.

The American Hospital Association questions the agency's calculations, and said the proposed information blocking penalties could threaten the financial viability of many small and rural hospitals.

With guidelines and rules for healthcare AI coming from the FDA, ONC, OCR, the White House and others, how will this regulatory framework change in 2024? Bryant Godfrey, partner at Foley Hoag, offers some thoughts.  

The agency says it has seized thousands of units of the product, which has crept its way into the legitimate U.S. drug supply chain.

The Medical Group Management Association says ONC's proposed rules add undue financial burden to practices and would affect the delivery of Medicare and value-based care.

Andreessen Horowitz investment partner Jay Rughani discusses the paper he and his colleagues published recently about clinical use cases of AI, and outlined steps regulators should take for reimbursing providers using the technology.