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In an increasingly competitive healthcare landscape, a strong digital presence and a superior care experience can be decisive factors in attracting and retaining patients, says one health IT consultant.

Through a recently completed multipronged red-teaming effort, the agency said it will develop repeatable testing datasets that can be used to evaluate large language model tools and services in the future.

As one telemedicine CEO looks to the year ahead, he predicts RPM will improve outcomes for congestive heart failure patients and help manage those on the wildly popular GLP-1 diabetes and weight loss medications.

The agency seeks to make its first HIPAA Security Rule update since 2013 to clarify what health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, providers and their business associates must do to protect the security of electronic protected health information.

Computer vision and sensor integration, evolution in virtual specialty care and other innovations are transcending the hype cycle and showing results, says one telehealth leader.

The hospital, primarily based on virtual care, will be built by an Australian company.

Healthcare organizations are embracing modern digital tools and emerging technologies like AI to reimagine how they interact with patients, connect with communities and advance lifesaving missions. However, as many of these organizations are registered as 501(c)(3) nonprofits, they share the common ailments that afflict the nonprofit sector at large: growing demand and shrinking budgets.

The bipartisan continuing resolution announced on Monday offers "big wins" for virtual care, and the American Telemedicine Association and other healthcare groups are pleased.

Conversations have only started in the past few years about what digital equity is and how it applies to telemedicine and virtual care. Here's what the Detroit-based health system has learned so far.