Government & Policy

Also, a new mobile CPD app for GPs has gone live in Australia.

Healthcare organizations including ONC, Advocate Health, Mt. Sinai, Tufts Medicine, UC Davis Health and the VA are participating, and will share implementation tips and best practices to enable broader adoption of the interoperability standard.

At HIMSS23 on Monday, leaders with the HHS 405(d) Program discussed how the updated Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices 2023 Edition and other new tools can help providers and public health groups mitigate cyber threats.

At the HIMSS23 Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, Nitin Natarajan, Deputy Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said protecting against escalating cyberattacks is a "joint effort" between government and the private sector.

The agency hopes the NPRM provisions will further move the needle on interoperability, expanding "appropriate access, exchange and use of electronic health information" with an eye toward health equity, said the National Coordinator for Health IT.