Government & Policy
Can the innovation be exported to other healthcare systems?
With a House bill that would extend Medicare telehealth flexibilities through 2024 set to be debated this week, the American Telemedicine Association is asking policymakers to safeguard two other key provisions.
"While I fully appreciate substantial challenges exist," he said of the rocky Cerner Oracle rollout, which has been put on pause, "the fact is that more is working than is not."
The draft publication 800-66 focuses on helping inform the industry about security issues around electronic protected health information.
"There is now a robust, extensive and dynamic virtual care option for patients that did not exist prior to the pandemic," its IT director of telehealth reports.
"The Department of Justice is committed to prosecuting people who abuse our healthcare system and exploit telemedicine technologies in fraud and bribery schemes," says assistant AG.
Health systems in Kansas and Colorado had made sizable bitcoin payments after ransomware attacks. That money has now been recovered by the FBI and will be returned.
