Patient Engagement

The Office of Management and Budget will consider HHS' approach to modernizing requirements for HIPAA covered entities charged with protecting ePHI against healthcare cybersecurity threats. Reports say the rule could be published by year's end.

Also, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services has partnered with Samsung Medison for medical imaging and AI.

Also:  New studies find commercial artificial intelligence algorithms developed for breast cancer detection may identify women at high risk of future malignancy – up to six years ahead of occurrence.

The health system said the partnership with Amazon One Medical will bring new primary care offices to the Cleveland region to improve the patient experience at every touchpoint.

Western Australia Country Health Service board chair Dr Neale Fong shares how they are enabling telemedicine and remote patient monitoring.

Also, AIIMS Delhi is the latest to open a training centre featuring Intuitive's RAS system in India.

When hospitals and health systems can integrate pertinent patient data into electronic health records (EHRs), they can deliver better patient outcomes at lower costs. However, managing unstructured patient data such as medical images and scanned records from outside providers poses a challenge to achieving this goal.

According to recent  HIMSS Market Insights research, healthcare leaders’ top goals are improving patient outcomes and optimizing clinical workflows and performance. However, managing unstructured data, medical images and other content, as well as the inability to exchange information with stakeholders outside their own systems, are major obstacles to meeting these goals.

Emteq Labs launches its emotion-sensing eyewear, Sense, which collects and records real-world data on a wearer’s facial expressions. Steen Strand, CEO, talks about the glasses' potential use cases for healthcare.    

MD Home Health CEO explains why the organization embraced the four-pronged, technology-infused style of home health and how the approach should streamline delivery and improve patient outcomes.