Government & Policy
A series of themes and proposals to help advance the digital transformation of healthcare in the Middle East and North Africa were made during the final session of the 2022 HIMSS Middle East Health Conference & Exhibition.
The FCC established the Affordable Connectivity Program in December 2021 to provide access and subsidized computing devices. It's free to enroll in ACP, but too few people are taking advantage.
The agency's first coordinated action against individuals using business email compromise and money laundering schemes to target healthcare payers uncovered $11.1 million diverted from Medicare, Medicaid programs, private health insurers and others.
The new partnership, focused on social determinants of health, aims to create a statewide mechanism for sharing data referrals, interventions and outcomes among providers and social care agencies.
During this morning keynote at the 2022 HIMSS Middle East Health Conference & Exhibition, experts will share insights on their initiatives for health justice – with a spotlight on the Middle East.
Oscar Miranda, chief technology officer for healthcare at Armis, notes that regulations are defined baselines yet security goals often exceed them, and the disconnect is a common theme in healthcare.
With security concerns, including a potential breach and a class-action suit, around Meta Pixel and other web tracking tools, health systems should be considering "all the ways PHI may be used, disclosed and accessed," says a former OCR investigator.
Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State College of Medicine received a grant that includes support for delivering a validated mind-body health program through wearable devices and smartphones.
Gaps in the availability, completeness and quality of health equity data remain across CMS programs, the agency says.
These projects are part of its broader strategy to shorten wait times while building the capacity to cater to future health demands.