[ad_1] Denis McDonough, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, told the House VA Committee on Thursday that progress on the EHR Program RESET Act of 2023 – first introduced a year ago – will help address some of the challenges of the Oracle Health electronic health record rollout, and enable wider implementations in 2025.  WHY IT…

[ad_1] It became clear across the healthcare cybersecurity landscape this week that the specter of a potential double-extortion attack by RansomHub is looming over Change Healthcare, following the February cyberattack by ALPHV. Further, a whirlwind of news on LockBit starts a complicated tale of international espionage and potential new threats to healthcare organizations from…

[ad_1] With a $555,000 award from Massachusetts' Technology & Innovation Ecosystem Awards Program and a private sector match, the MITRE Corporation will partner with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School to run the Health AI Assurance Laboratory, the MassTech Collaborative announced Wednesday. WHY IT MATTERS The lab aims to contribute to emerging national…

[ad_1] The National Academy of Medicine has issued a landscape review, code principles and commitments saying accurate, safe, reliable and ethical AI transformation in healthcare and biomedical science is achievable. Based on the Leadership Consortium’s Learning Health System Core Principles, an initiative the academy has spearheaded since 2006, the organization said its new draft…

[ad_1] Atlantic Health System will deploy the artificial intelligence-based precision population health platform of vendor FeelBetter to optimize medication management for polypharmacy patients at three accountable care organizations. WHY IT MATTERS The Boston- and Tel Aviv-based machine learning technology company offers providers a tool that can alert them to patients at high risk of…

[ad_1] The World Health Organization said it has expanded its generative artificial intelligence assistant, first launched during the COVID-19 pandemic as Florence, to help people everywhere live healthier lives. S.A.R.A.H, or Sarah, was created using an AI training approach based on modeling interactive human systems to deliver more personalized and engaging messages. WHY IT…

[ad_1] While technology innovators look to artificial intelligence to improve patient outcomes and experiences, they are also finding ways to cut the red tape that generally slows healthcare down, according to many announcements this week.  Northwestern Medicine, the Nevada Health Link, Cohere Health and Kyruus Health are partnering withDell Technologies, Google Cloud Marketplace and…

[ad_1] The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, created by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT under the 21st Century Cures Act, holds huge promise for interoperability and information exchange.  It also has big implications for privacy and security. "It's possible that a TEFCA security incident is also a HIPAA security…

[ad_1] The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program, administered by the Diplomatic Security Service, announced a $10 million bounty Wednesday seeking more information against the BlackCat ransomware group. The State Department said it set up a dark web tip line to protect the safety and security of potential sources. WHY IT MATTERS…

[ad_1] Real-time insight into population health trends at the community level could be advanced by access to detailed and timely emergency medical response data, which is underutilized, said experts at HIMSS24 in Orlando this past week. That's often due to challenges with data quality and a lack of interoperability with state health information exchanges…