Interoperability

The Department of Veterans Affairs is calling on healthcare innovation teams to create artificial intelligence-enabled tools that elevate the agency's healthcare data management and clinical practice.

The CMS-based disincentives outlined in the proposed rule from ONC published Monday would penalize hospitals under the Promoting Interoperability Program, eligible clinicians under MIPS and ACO participants under the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

Threat actors could execute on a remote code execution vulnerability in Mirth Connect, a cross-platform communications tool, to gain access and compromise data, according to the NIST national vulnerability database.

Healthcare organizations should build cyber resiliency to better manage future targeted ransomware attacks.

Interoperability agreements between public health systems, along with centralized consent management for sharing healthcare and other data, are must-haves for advancing health equity, says Daniel Stein, president of Stewards of Change Institute.

Seamlessly integrating technologies can reduce retained surgical items events and support improved patient outcomes and reduced legal liabilities.

Individuals increased their use of apps to access their online medical records between 2020 and 2022, while web-only access to portals decreased, according to an analysis of national survey data.

Efforts to connect data from various sources at the population level must also emphasize the principle of simplification, says Charles Sevior, Dell Technologies CTO for Unstructured Data Solutions.

According to dHealth Foundation director and cofounder Quy Vo-Reinhard, for regulators and users to keep up with emerging technologies like blockchain and smart contracts there needs to be an emphasis on education.

Lab data is a first big focus of the initiative, focused on standardized exchange terminology.