Interoperability

A new RFI from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is seeking stakeholder input on how to realize artificial intelligence goals and usher in nationwide, clinical-scale adoption of the technology.

Healthcare organizations are shifting to full incident response programs.

Kevin Ritter, EVP for CareInMotion at Altera Digital Health, offers some answers and discusses how to surmount inconsistent, duplicate records that can erode trust and weaken the efficacy of analytics and clinical decision-making.

The new CMS Interoperability Framework aims to harmonize protections across covered entities, business associates and patient-facing apps. It could help move healthcare from baseline HIPAA compliance toward a broader model of validated assurance.

Attorney General Ken Pax­ton says the EHR vendor uses deceptive and anticompetitive practices to restrict parental access to children's medical records and undermine health technology competition in the state.

The Australian Digital Health Agency is enabling allied health's access to health data and wider uptake of AI tools and other emerging technologies.

The GAO says the Oracle electronic health record system still has numerous unresolved issues, but the VA insists accounts of persistent potential safety risks are "cherry-picked" and meant to besmirch the Trump administration.

As part of the group's digital transformation, it is moving to a single platform for managing workforce, finance, planning, and contracts by January 2026.

And that was just with one payer, for one year. What's more, the health system's excellent HEDIS numbers earned it the designation of top performer for three of its contracted health plans. Two IHP execs tell the tale.

The AWS-hosted platform can detect emerging disease threats earlier, assess risks faster, and coordinate responses within and across borders without compromising data sovereignty.