Compliance & Legal

As he focuses on shoring up data-sharing resiliency and ensuring that new IT initiatives bake in SDOH as a "fundamental design criterion," the new national coordinator also reminded people about an important April 5 start date.

Image sharing is finally advancing away from CD-ROMs and toward image-enabled personal health records, say Dr. David Mendelson, vice chair of radiology IT at Mount Sinai, and Dave Cassel, executive director of Carequality.

The API is aimed at giving healthcare app developers and clinical researchers a simple way to manage consent regarding health data use.

Its new DSaaS collaboration with AWS promises help with scalable analytics, helping healthcare organizations gain ground with pop health projects by offering insights into social determinants of health.

Its Ransomware Resource Center offers free tools to help healthcare IT pros "better prepare for, respond to, and recover from ransomware attacks."                           

The OIG is conducting "significant work" to assess telehealth services during the public health emergency.

Experts at the WEDI conference outlined steps for institutions and clinical teams to take toward bringing equity to patient-facing tools.