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Secure medical records exchange under the national framework by all Epic customers is expected to be completed by the end of 2025, says Rob Klootwyk, director of interoperability at Epic.

And that's just one of the many artificial intelligence use cases Chief Health AI Officer Karandeep Singh is focused on with his team. He offers a closer look at some of the health system's other AI priorities.

Four GOP members of Congress are asking Micky Tripathi and ASTP/ONC to halt efforts toward government-administered artificial intelligence safety testing, and "walk back support" for a lab model proposed by the Coalition for Health AI.

The Health Care Cybersecurity and Resiliency Act of 2024 would provide grants to help healthcare organizations strengthen prevention and response - and push for better coordination between HHS and CISA.

The research shows how data integrity issues at every stage – training, model development, publication, implementation – can adversely impact patient outcomes, say clinicians at Yale School of Medicine.

The goal is to give imaging providers a source for analytics on how their clinical artificial intelligence applications are operating over time. 

Also, the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department has launched a new patient portal which already helped reduce duplicate records by a tenth.

The former GOP congressman from Georgia has served as a U.S. Navy chaplain and is a colonel in the Air Force Reserve. He would inherit a major EHR modernization initiative, currently paused but slated to restart in 2025, among other IT imperatives.

The agency is proposing telehealth access grants to establish fixed, secure environments outfitted with reliable internet and secure video that connect veterans hobbled by the digital divide to health services.

Through its partnership with DispatchHealth, MedStar Health is now providing care in patient homes after hospital stays and emergency visits, or through virtual healthcare referrals.