Compliance & Legal

With the European Health Data Space and its associated legislation progressing at pace, HIMSS is working to promote the topic of EU interoperability to a wider audience – starting with its Rome conference in May.

The watchdog agency has reached an agreement with a behavioral health practice for potential HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule violations leading up to and at the time of the 2019 breach.

Deployed across venture platform 25madison's health tech innovator, the new program establishes baseline target profiles for health tech portfolio companies with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the 405(d) Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices.

Texting of patient orders among members by healthcare teams is now permissible at hospitals and critical access hospitals when done through a HIPAA-compliant secure platform in compliance with CMS Conditions of Participation rules, the agency says.

Healthcare organizations are looking for the proper use of OpenAI, research on LLMs and bias in AI technology. Harjinder Sandhu, CTO of health platforms and solutions at Microsoft, has the answers.  

Also: Akamai releases a new tool that monitors website visitor behavior and helps detect malicious scraper bots looking to steal data. 

Ram Rimal and Mike Plesh from UNC Health preview their HIMSS24 panel session, where they'll review how multiple stakeholders across UNC created a framework for adopting both vendor and in-house artificial intelligence applications.

The sector has strengths in cybersecurity and communications but lacks innovation, the Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council notes.