Government & Policy

The Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare has just updated its national policy roadmap for AI in healthcare.

Data security protections also remain weak.

OCR investigated Saint Joseph’s Medical Center for alleged violations of HIPAA when it disclosed three patients’ PHI to the Associated Press without written authorization. 

While more countries are considering implementing a national EMR, they remain on the fence given its cost, notes TPP founder and CEO Frank Hester.

"We've got to be able to do something to incent those smaller community hospitals," says Wes Wright, chief healthcare officer of Ordr, because they cannot afford to protect the large electronic attack surfaces created with meaningful use requirements.

HHS is proposing expensive new disincentives to prevent information blocking. There are significant details to be aware of, especially around a list of enumerated exceptions – and HCOs must work quickly to understand them, data privacy experts say.

It will enable community pharmacists to prescribe medications.

Using a census-based survey index that captures population-level socioeconomic risk for health disparities, researchers found that hospitals serving marginalized populations were 21% less likely to engage in interoperable data exchange than the rest.