Compliance & Legal

For Global Health Equity Week, Knight Consulting principal and New Jersey HIMSS member Mike Relli, describes how Section 1115 waivers can help states boost access and reduce SDOH disparities for citizens reentering the community after incarceration.

In discussing social determinants of health data utilization, Dr. Hilary Hatch, chief clinical officer at Phreesia, describes how analytics and patient engagement tools are streamlining workflows and helping providers respond to more patients in need.

Insured customers paid more for drugs than members of its Prescription Savings Club, lawsuit alleges.

New data elements related to social drivers of health, such as referrals to social services, improve standards-based information exchange with electronic health records, it says. 

The medtech company says it is the only manufacturer of FDA-approved pulse oximeters to have reached an agreement in a lawsuit against many over the devices' notoriously higher rates of error for people with darker skin.

Yiannos Tolias of the European Commission's DG Sante discusses how the European Health Data Space (EHDS) will help developers access data to train healthcare AI applications that will benefit the EU's entire population.

With the Chevron doctrine overturned, lawsuits such as the one filed by UnitedHealth against CMS, may become the norm, says Jenn Kerfoot, chief strategy and growth officer at DUOS.

The electronic health record giant says that it did not violate federal law prohibiting unfair business practices when it raised concerns about certain patient data requests over the Carequality interoperability framework.

A new form of AI-powered fraud is posing risks to healthcare bottom lines. Medicomp CEO David Lareau describes what it is, how to fight it – and how to help cautious executives concerned with the double-edged sword of artificial intelligence.