- Indonesia's digital health maturity in 2023 revealed and more briefsby Adam Ang on March 29, 2024 at 4:58 am
Also, Indian cancer care network HealthCare Global Enterprises has come out with a new mobile application.
- UC Irvine's AI-powered conversational health agent is ready for developersby Bill Siwicki on March 28, 2024 at 4:47 pm
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.
- ONC drafts Federal Health IT Plan for 2024-2030, calls for public commentby Nathan Eddy on March 28, 2024 at 2:59 pm
The "outcomes-driven" strategy for the rest of this decade is focused on key goals: boosting access to electronic health information, improving the patient experience by prioritizing health equity and modernizing public health infrastructure.
- Proposed CISA rule would require reporting for cyber incidents and ransom paymentsby Andrea Fox on March 28, 2024 at 2:43 pm
In healthcare, larger hospitals, all critical access hospitals, essential drug manufacturers and Class II and Class III devices would fall under the draft mandatory reporting rules, but health IT developers and others would not.
- States step in to hasten provider recovery in wake of Change Healthcare cyberattackby Andrea Fox on March 27, 2024 at 5:44 pm
Washington, Maryland and New Mexico have leveraged funding opportunities and regulatory tools to ease the burden on providers still struggling to operate with claims payments disrupted.
- How Nebraska Medicine used AI to reduce first-year nurse turnover by nearly 50%by Bill Siwicki on March 27, 2024 at 3:01 pm
The accomplishment puts the health system in a better position to attract and retain the talent that is so critical to its ability to serve its patients, says its VP of operations.
- OIG: Scheduling error in VA's EHR had dire consequencesby Andrea Fox on March 27, 2024 at 2:17 pm
Because a high-risk flag had been inactivated in the hospital’s new Oracle electronic health record, clinicians did not evaluate a veteran's mental health and medication restart request, contributing to an overdose seven weeks after a missed appointment.
- First 24/7 virtual emergency clinic in Australia's outback launchedby Adam Ang on March 27, 2024 at 12:09 am
First responders from the community can connect with an on-call doctor from miles away via telehealth to receive instructions.
- How extending virtual options can drive value-based careby Adam Ang on March 26, 2024 at 11:58 pm
Northern Health has started digitising its various patient care programs through a single virtual platform.
- Healthy datasets are the cornerstone of effective AI initiativesby mike.miliard@medtechmedia.com; Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN (Mike Miliard) on March 26, 2024 at 3:01 pm
"What data do you have? Where is it located? How do you get to it? And is the data fit for purpose? Data doesn't need to be perfect to be useful. But you don't ever want to use data that's not perfect and not know it."