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A final rule is expected later this spring, and many of its proposed changes would be time‑consuming and costly for covered entities and business associates to manage. But implementing some of these practices and controls could help.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers offer robust patient services programs – with nurse navigators, mobile apps, in-home testing and more – to improve medication adherence. But too many programs still use outdated analytics platforms to parse data.
What makes the New Zealand case worth following is what the investigations are actually testing: Are health systems truly designed to protect highly sensitive information?
The new CMS Interoperability Framework aims to harmonize protections across covered entities, business associates and patient-facing apps. It could help move healthcare from baseline HIPAA compliance toward a broader model of validated assurance.
Healthcare organizations can build executive confidence in technology investments by adopting a structured, outcome-oriented approach that aligns IT initiatives to clinical and operational goals. The HIMSS Infrastructure Adoption Model can help.
As phishing tactics evolve, healthcare organizations need to act quickly to shore up defenses and close the gaps that attackers are exploiting. That shift needs to start now.
One recent artificial intelligence project at the Pennsylvania health system is the launch of the virtual patient monitoring and nursing platform to boost patient safety while alleviating nurses' workloads.
The radiologist shortage and increasing imaging demand are two intertwined challenges that can benefit from large language models. Penn Medicine is showing how.
As artificial intelligence and other digital health technologies make their mark, provider organizations need to pursue "organizational ambidexterity." Here's what that means, along with six tips for achieving it.
The electronic health record vendor group was founded two decades ago with a bold premise: competitors working collaboratively to identify issues related to software development and functionality for EHRs and to further the initiatives laid out by HHS.