Government & Policy
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.
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response will be surveying agencies to assess the readiness of state, local, tribal and territorial public health organizations to manage cyber threats and gauge their needs for support.
The new Veterans Community will support veteran workforce development and transition to civilian life for former members of any branch of the U.S. military and their spouses.
The group expects support for virtual care to continue after the 2024 Election, but urges action as soon as possible to extend pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities past the end of the year.
It will likely adopt the standards of Chinese insurer Ping An for its online family doctor contract service.
The expectation is for a new Congress to create policy around AI and cybersecurity, says Tom Leary of HIMSS.
This follows an audit report that flagged its "partly effective" management of its contract outsourcing the operation of the digital health record system.
Why are the two often so disconnected? And what role can technology play in integrating them? A new CMS accountable care program aims to drive progress, and one expert explains what it means for providers.
New data elements related to social drivers of health, such as referrals to social services, improve standards-based information exchange with electronic health records, it says.
The medtech company says it is the only manufacturer of FDA-approved pulse oximeters to have reached an agreement in a lawsuit against many over the devices' notoriously higher rates of error for people with darker skin.
