Government & Policy

Researchers at Northeastern University, working with several healthcare organizations and health tech companies, are developing vulnerability management platforms they hope to rapidly deploy and support. 

The CMS Administrator spoke at length about the Rural Health Transformation Fund at a White House-hosted event designed to promote innovation in payment and flexibility. 

Concept Realisation's Nasser Massoud says GCC digital health success depends on patients trusting technology, regulators supporting innovation sans safety risks and insurers paying providers fairly for telehealth services.

Beset by challenges on many fronts, small and rural health organizations are harnessing new technologies to improve care delivery and keep their doors open.

The guidance allows for different levels of transparency depending on whether artificial intelligence is used in direct patient interactions or in background administrative functions.

Experts advise healthcare organizations to ask: "Who will be accountable for decisions influenced by artificial intelligence – the clinician, department, vendor or hospital? And what will be needed to defend AI-influenced decisions?"

The Health Information Law will start requiring providers to share information, such as vaccinations, medications, and laboratory results, to the NEHR system from early 2027.

ASTP/ONC's draft rulemaking, known as HTI-5, aims to reduce compliance complexities. But some industry experts say seemingly welcome changes do not align with data exchange and security realities.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says 25% of spending is fraudulent or being abused by providers. Carol Howard, VP innovation and adoption at Janus Health, explains how the new payment rule might help.

Health Minister Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad has marked 2026 as the year for implementing health system reforms, including further digitalisation.