Government & Policy

Karin Schifter-Maor discusses how remote patient monitoring can bring the Acute Hospital Care at Home program to more people, make the program affordable and use centralized patient data to improve health outcomes.

Emergency medical response information isn't used enough in healthcare. Agencies are looking to align with TEFCA, seeking partners to improve interoperability with state EMS systems and to build out technical resources for bidirectional exchange.

U.S. and international agencies are advising all critical-sector IT leaders to bolster against vendor risks and defend against live-off-the-land techniques stemming from PRC state-sponsored cyber activity.

Also: Availity clarifies reports that it has cut ties with the clearinghouse and says it "fully expects" to reconnect to Change Healthcare.

J29's origin, its work interpreting healthcare policies for public agencies, and its mission of contributing to nonprofits, including the "HIMSS Gives Back" program, presented by Tracy Mills, CEO and founder, and Nick Vass, president.

Its national research institute has built a chatbot based on Meta's LLM which can answer doctors' questions with up to 95% accuracy.

The agency further defines when it considers a device to be Internet-enabled, proposes to add vulnerability disclosures and makes recommendations for cyber device maintenance plans and patch timelines.

"We thought if we could bring more transparency to decision support intervention, we can instill more trust and we can help optimize the use of these algorithms."