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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.

An investigation into the incident, now being handled by the Department of Justice, is reportedly trying to determine whether Gov. Tim Walz or Sen. J.D. Vance’s health records were shared as a result of the insider breaches.

Also: A Virginia man is facing more than 20 years for unauthorized access and exposure of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's PHI in 2019 to fuel a political conspiracy theory.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will extend the contract for the electronic health record modernization first launched seven years ago, even in the face of implementation challenges and more Congressional scrutiny.

The personalized, large language model-backed framework is designed to provide support for patient needs – whether answering urgent health questions or just lending an empathetic ear.

The decision comes following a successful pilot at the Subiaco Hospital. 

As chief strategy officer for 1upHealth, the former national coordinator for health IT and interoperability guru gets a lot of feedback from industry stakeholders. Here are some of the questions, comments and concerns he's hearing.

The agreement supports the use of the World Health Organization's international classifications and terminologies in the HL7 FHIR community and will provide a testing environment and standards documentation to member states. 

Healthcare organizations including ONC, Advocate Health, Mt. Sinai, Tufts Medicine, UC Davis Health and the VA are participating, and will share implementation tips and best practices to enable broader adoption of the interoperability standard.

At HIMSS23, Ken Mandl and Don Rucker will show how the SMART/HL7 spec can enable better performance tracking, public health surveillance, pharma safety and clinical research.