Government & Policy
According to the French Ministry of Health's Louisa Stuwe, digital devices for remote patient monitoring and digital therapeutics now enjoy fast-track access and reimbursement in France. The process is comparable to Germany's DiGA.
The agencies contacted 130 health systems and telehealth providers by mail to emphasize the potential HIPAA risks of using Meta/Facebook pixel and Google Analytics tracking tools that may be "impermissibly disclosing" protected health information.
Eddie Ades, executive advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton and former associate director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses the agency's efforts to refocus on interoperability and data modernization.
United States Core Data for Interoperability Standard, version 4, is a key resource for information blocking and interoperability compliance. It is adding 20 new data elements and one new data class – facility information – to the previous standard set.
According to the French Ministry of Health's Louisa Stuwe, during its EU Presidency in 2022, France promoted a digital health single market and 16 digital health ethics principles.
According to the French Ministry of Health's Louisa Stuwe, the national "Ma Santé 2022" strategy engaged multiple stakeholder and citizen consultations and secured essential funding to pave the way for a national digital health doctrine.
Threat actors are using artificial intelligence for both designing and executing attacks on hospitals and health systems. HC3 used ChatGPT to show how bad actors leverage generative AI to design spear-phishing emails and malware.
The electronic health record vendor was accused by the DOJ of "misrepresenting the capabilities of certain versions of its EHR software" and providing kickbacks to customers to drive new sales.
The CEO of CRISP discusses how health information exchanges, regional health networks and others are collaborating to build out the interoperability ecosystem and enable more effective sharing of critical clinical and public health data.
The health system is one of six institutions that will use advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning for a $52M NIH-funded phenotyping research project targeting acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia and sepsis.