Government & Policy

Digital Medicine Society CEO Jennifer Goldsack, Moffitt Cancer Center VP of Digital Innovation Santosh Mohan and ONC Senior Advisor Stephen Konya discuss the progress of the Cancer Moonshot initiative.

Healthcare organizations often face challenges with interoperability and cybersecurity regulations – but they can pivot to make those mandates part of their strategic road map, says Drew Ivan, chief strategy officer at Rhapsody.

Andrea Palm, deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, says the agency is striving to "put the people we serve at the center of what we do." Meanwhile, ONC officials offer updates on new Cures Act rules.

The new APFIT funding enables DoD to further the Defense Innovation Unit's use of algorithms to analyze biometric data from commercial wearables and predict infections up to 48 hours before service members' symptoms appear.

While legislators offer proposals to recalibrate the development and rein in the deployment and oversight of the VA's Oracle Cerner electronic health records, other leaders want to scrap the system altogether.

While stakeholders agree the new interoperability and decision support rules could improve quality outcomes, some note that significant up-front commitment is needed for health IT developers while providers still document care with unstructured data.

Security professionals must protect networks while avoiding burdensome access controls.

The aspirational model is intended to serve as a starting point and a path forward for healthcare, health data and government leaders to follow in creating HDUs, says the consortium of health data organizations. 

A healthy healthcare industry is key to keeping inflation down and avoiding recession, Zandi said at HIMSS23 on Friday. Despite workforce challenges and cost pressures, he's optimistic AI and automation can help boost productivity.

The Defense Health Agency is launching a data-centric path to making military medicine "more precise, personal, predictive, preventive and participatory," said its new director, Army Lieutenant General Dr. Telita Crosland, at HIMS23.