Government & Policy
Women in Health IT
The Texas physician is the president’s choice for assistant secretary of health but Senate Democrats say Giroir’s testimony left them skeptical that he would support women’s health programs.
Regulation
Inviting hackers to attack your network and then paying them for discovering weaknesses seems dangerous. But the U.S. Department of Defense is succeeding with the practice and some infosec firms are specializing in it.
EHR
Researchers will use the funding to new approaches to enable EHRs to more accurately bring patient information together to ensure clinicians are looking at the right information for a specific individual.
EHR
The veteran executive proposes a multi-pronged approach to ending the tyranny of wasted time and effort created by today’s technologies.
Data Management
ICS-CERT researchers found four vulnerabilities in Siemens’ molecular imaging products that can be publicly exploited and allow a hacker to remotely access and compromise the devices.
EHR
Epic says it absolutely supports patient access to medical records despite reports of tense chat wi…
The EHR vendor said the issue was related to how it could translate a patient’s EHR information in a way that is easy to understand.
Advocacy
Appointees will advise National Coordinator for Health IT on policies, standards, specifications.
Regulation
The President and the Veterans Affairs secretary also announced a new telehealth app and said they are rolling out another nationwide.
Regulation
In a leaked audio, the senior adviser and son-in-law to President Donald Trump discusses meetings with the VA Secretary, Defense Secretary and DoD EHR experts.
EHR
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will shift its testing portfolio over the next five years to include as many industry-developed and maintained testing tools as possible.