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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.
Companies this past month announced many new products and services that use artificial intelligence to automate complex processes, secure data and improve care coordination and interoperability workflows.
Also, DrFirst earns HITRUST for electronic prior authorization, e-prescribing, patient engagement and other healthcare tools.
Cybersecurity In Focus
Tech CISO Scott Mattila discusses proactive measures critical to reducing cyber-risks and describes the steps hospitals and health systems can take to prepare now to comply with crucial mandates. He also highlights the new rule's impact of direct liability on business associates.
The health system sees about 50 cases per day with one of its referring health systems – more than 18,000 cases per year where care is improved and patients and their families have a better experience, the CDIO reports.
An AI-powered evaluation framework can help test and scale AI implementations in healthcare, Flinders University researchers claimed.
Cybersecurity In Focus
Even as the number of impacted individuals has been again revised upward, industry leaders say there are silver-lining lessons to learn from the incident about security frameworks, third-party risk and basic cyber hygiene.
Cybersecurity In Focus
A cybersecurity CEO offers advice on tactics healthcare CISOs and CIOs should use to protect sensitive telehealth data, and how providers can adopt a proactive security stance specific to virtual care.
EHR customers could take part in the direct sharing of health information – including X-rays and MRIs – between providers, payers, government agencies and others under the TEFCA nationwide interoperability framework.
The Digital Medicine Society's seal aims to evaluate health application products' baseline security, usability and clinical return on investment to help decision-makers scrutinize which tools are best for patient care.
