Mike Miliard
The guide is meant to improve data sharing among providers and public health agencies and enable semantic interoperability between sending and receiving systems, helping healthcare organizations incorporate shared data more easily into clinical workflows.
The proposal provides a "valuable tool to support the electronic submission of healthcare information," said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. It would reduce provider burden and could save more than $450 million a year.
The newly created position will be filled by Dr. Curtis L. Cole, Weill Cornell Medicine's assistant vice provost for information services and CIO. The health system's deputy CIO Vipin Kamath will be promoted.
In this special episode, recorded live in Boston at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, Roshal Marshall of McKesson discusses this and other issues, including AI integrity and information blocking rule compliance.
Between now and December 21, stakeholders are encouraged to offer their responses to help with benchmarking, assessing critical needs, tracking progress, educating federal policymakers and more.
Its new Advanced Visualization Workspace includes dozens of clinical apps for cardiology, oncology, neurology and radiology.
The move will make it "simpler for our IT and developers, and will allow them to focus more on uncovering creative ways to improve patient care," said the health system's chief digital information officer.
With security concerns, including a potential breach and a class-action suit, around Meta Pixel and other web tracking tools, health systems should be considering "all the ways PHI may be used, disclosed and accessed," says a former OCR investigator.
The in-person Boston event will gather health system CISOs, security directors, and other IT and infosec leaders to share strategies for risk mitigation in an ever more complex threat landscape.
The new institute will focus on AI and machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, 5G technologies, precision medicine, telehealth and more.