Government & Policy

The agency is seeking ideas from healthcare stakeholders about how such a group might be structured, and how it could help accelerate innovation and encourage capital investment across the industry.

Ajit Pai seeks immediate action to ramp up the Universal Service Fund’s Rural Health Care Program, which advances telehealth, for the first time since it started in 1997.

Richard Corbridge, chief digital and information officer for Leeds Teaching, and Daniel Ray, director of data science for NHS Digital, discuss the tangible ways healthcare data is advancing population health for the United Kingdom.

House and Senate committees criticize department with essentially the same case sidelined Deputy CISO Leo Scanlon made in March.

AHIMA offers advice for using the new codes, created as part of the Quality Payment Program, which have begun being reported voluntarily this year.

HeartMate3 recalled because of unintended disconnection between power source and controller.

The American Medical Association assesses the implications of artificial and "augmented" intelligence, proposing policy recommendations as it prepares for its annual meeting, which starts June 9.

As the agency considers a lighter touch for regulating iterative versions of software-as-a-medical device, it should also stay focused on patient-centeredness, cybersecurity and more, HIMSS says.

Apple, Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner and others made noteworthy moves in the last few weeks.

With more machine learning tools expected to get the go-ahead soon, health systems should be partnering with vendors to supply data for better algorithms.