Andrea Fox
Integrating partnerships and promoting workforce development in the communities CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield serves is helping address the social drivers that affect health outcomes, says President and CEO Brian Pieninck.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health says new funding to advance capabilities that detect and auto-correct misalignments with training data could help users of medical devices integrated with artificial intelligence ensure peak performance.
With just 125 days on the clock, the group is asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to extend telehealth flexibilities in the 2025 Physician Fee Schedule – and wants the White House and Congress to make it permanent.
Also: Pfizer says it is partnering with healthcare organizations to develop a new digital health platform that provides access to same-day care, prescriptions and vaccines for COVID-19 or the flu.
Using National Cancer Institute data, researchers at HHS looked at how recently diagnosed individuals and those in survivorship accessed electronic health information and also compared frequency against those never diagnosed with malignancies.
A new private WMware cloud aims to address healthcare's data proliferation while Sanford Health taps Infor for modernization and Qventus launches perioperative artificial intelligence to enhance OR efficiencies.
Also: Elevance Health and CDR announced a national primary care platform for risk-based healthcare delivery that takes a whole health approach to improve patient outcomes.
The company announced on Patch Tuesday that among 90 CVEs for August – including six zero-day exploits – the Azure Connected Machine Agent had a critical elevation of privilege vulnerability.
Healthcare organizations will need to go through a three-step process to achieve post-quantum safety: Discover, observe and transform, says Scott Crowder, vice president of IBM's quantum-safe adoption team.
Nursing and IT
Healthcare leaders should address the stress of AI and share roadmaps to gain buy-in from nurses, says Dr. Iman Abuzeid, CEO and cofounder of Incredible Health.