Government & Policy

CMS should get more information from Medicare users to help address their health disparities, suggests Ann Maxwell, deputy inspector general for evaluations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.

Its partnership with Freshpaint seeks to support hospitals, health systems and health plans by configuring their patient engagement ecosystems to support compliance with HIPAA privacy rules and regulations.

The Defense Health Agency has earmarked as much as $180 million for the project, which seeks to build a next-generation hybrid care platform for the U.S. Military Health System

Andy Tan, who is now Healthcare Solution Lead at T-Systems Singapore, shares some advice on running a successful EMR implementation at a national scale.

Without prevention healthcare systems will be swamped. The Nordics' plans seek a balance, says Bogi Eliasen of the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies.

OCR's new resources aim to shore up telehealth privacy practices by helping healthcare organizations guide patients in basic cyber hygiene that can better protect their PHI when accessing virtual care through websites and apps.

CISA highlights five recently detected vulnerabilities to its KEV catalog and creates a new list of misconfigurations and weaknesses known to be used in ransomware campaigns, and HC3 warns about NoEscape ransomware.

The agency seeks to draw on outside expertise to "ensure we appropriately apply our regulatory authority in a way that protects patient health while continuing to support innovation," says the director of its Center for Devices and Radiological Health.