Andrea Fox
Healthcare organizations should join federal 'sandboxes' to help shape policy, prepare the workforce, and stay on top of compliance and ethics as artificial intelligence evolves, says Lora Sparkman, VP of patient safety and quality at Relias.
At its Open@Epic data interoperability conference, the company also touted new access features, made possible through APIs and Bluetooth, and expanded developer resources, such as direct web links to sandboxes and more than 40 playbooks.
The cloud infrastructure company promotes Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as it redoubles focus on a series of artificial intelligence initiatives, including its forthcoming AI-powered EHR.
By agreeing to be acquired by Patient Square Capital, the healthcare improvement company hopes the new ownership structure will offer it the flexibility it needs to accelerate its IT investments and expand its services for health systems.
Patients in the largely rural pediatric population now have a better office experience and more personalized treatment with artificial intelligence, says VCH's physician informatics director.
AI & ML Intelligence
Nearly seven in 10 hospitals were using predictive artificial intelligence in 2024, with a surge in the use of third-party or self-developed automated billing, the agency says. Also, hospitals slower to adopt AI are lower-resourced, suggesting a divide.
Telehealth and hospital-at-home coverage under Medicare flexibilities could end in days. An immediate temporary extension is the only viable vehicle to ensure they do not lapse, the American Telemedicine Association says.
The House passed a bill to modernize the Veterans Affairs' claims process by creating an artificial intelligence tool to retrieve data, provide decision support, share information and generate claim-related correspondence.
The NOFO encourages states to facilitate collaboration between rural health facilities and larger regional systems to share resources, technology and services for their applications.
Patients of Epic providers onboarded to TEFCA can now access and share a single, real-time health record with HealthEx’s new service, and securely share it with any trusted third party, the companies say.