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Lawmakers recommend establishing and investing in federal AI resources that foster collaboration among agencies and sectoral regulation, which includes two key findings and five recommendations for healthcare.

The court battle with Particle Health highlights how national health information exchange networks rely on a chain of trust that can be broken, jeopardizing patient privacy under HIPAA.

One CEO offers a closer look into the various technologies at work, including RTLS and artificial intelligence, and he offers some stats on smart room implementations.

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.

Vijayashree Natarajan, SVP and head of technology at Omega Healthcare, predicts these three areas of health IT will be key next year – and explains why.

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

HHS' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, along with the Office of the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, has compiled a list of healthcare use cases as required by executive orders of both the Biden and Trump administrations.

Physicians said in this year's Doximity survey that telemedicine tools have helped them improve disease management and patient access. They also said adherence to treatment plans, patient outcomes and productivity are up.

The EHR Association is urging the agency to address members' concerns and finalize additional decision support intervention measurements proposed in the draft rule, and clarify uncertainties that could compromise the quality of submissions.

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.