- Te Whatu Ora proposes to ax a third of data, digital rolesThis could impact ongoing health system IT modernisation efforts, says New Zealand’s largest trade union, Public Service Association. Read more »
- Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital sets up AI-powered pathology serviceIt features speech-to-text and an AI that identifies high-risk findings from slide images. Read more »
- Senators intro bipartisan bill to bolster healthcare cybersecurityThe Health Care Cybersecurity and Resiliency Act of 2024 would provide grants to help healthcare organizations strengthen prevention and response - and push for better coordination between HHS and CISA. Read more »
- OCR's HIPAA audit program lacked mettle, OIG saysThe Office of Civil Rights could have initiated follow-up after discovering security flaws, but "rarely initiated these reviews when it identified serious compliance issues," according to the HHS inspector general's audit program review. Read more »
- New NIH tool uses genAI to connect volunteers with clinical trialsTrialGPT could help providers navigate the vast and ever-changing range of clinical trials available to their patients by finding, ranking and explaining why a patient is matched, the agency says. Read more »
- Singapore General Hospital developing AI to prevent antibiotic resistanceA pilot validation study found that the AI helped hasten case reviews and data analysis and determine the necessity of antibiotic use. Read more »
- Mount Sinai Health announces new Center for AI and Human HealthThe interdisciplinary center will combine artificial intelligence with data science and genomics at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Read more »
- Yale study shows how AI bias worsens healthcare disparitiesThe research shows how data integrity issues at every stage – training, model development, publication, implementation – can adversely impact patient outcomes, say clinicians at Yale School of Medicine. Read more »
- Singapore tackling chronic diseases with wearablesThe Health Promotion Board is piloting two preventative health programmes with Google and Abbott involving 6,000 Singaporeans. Read more »
- $14M more for EMR implementation in Victoria and more briefsPublic health services in South Australia and Melbourne are set to implement a digital patient flow management platform. Read more »
- CommonSpirit partners up with U of U for clinical collaborationPatients from five of the health system's hospitals will now have access to University of Utah Health providers and resources through the new community-based partnership. Read more »
- HIMSSCast: Care provider or tool? When and why patients like AIMark Polyak, president of analytics at IPSOS, and Dr. Lukasz Kowalczyk, a gastroenterolgy physician, offer a data-driven discussion about how patients feel about artificial intelligence, and how they want it used in their care. Read more »
- EHR tips on migrating an all-digital hospital to EpicOklahoma Heart Hospital CIO David Miles and his team made it through in one piece. He offers tips for those facing an electronic health record switch, discusses staff resistance – and talks about what it takes to successfully work with a consulting firm. Read more »
- House passes veterans healthcare package without RESET ActThe revised bill now leaves out provisions that would have increased Congressional oversight over the VA's EHR modernization partnership with Oracle, which is set to restart in 2025. Read more »
- Deep dive: A tour of all-digital Oklahoma Heart Hospital, where automation is the normImproving the care experience through technology is at the core of the cardiovascular center's values, says its CIO – who describes how the two-hospital system uses patient feedback to focus on optimal care delivery, and has the accolades to prove it. Read more »
- All private hospitals in Singapore to connect to national EMRThe Ministry of Health has secured their commitment to integrate patient data with the national EHR starting next year. Read more »
- OIG again deems HHS' infosec program ineffectiveIn its FISMA review for FY 2024, the watchdog agency said that the U.S. Health and Human Services was unable to meet managed and measurable maturity for core metrics. Read more »
- Case and referral management technology gets big results for St. Luke'sAmong other wins, St. Luke's University Health Network has reduced length of stay for patients going to post-acute facilities by 0.3 days. This decrease translates into significant bed availability and improved patient throughput. Read more »
- Northwestern Medicine announces international healthcare collaborationThe effort aims to accelerate the London Clinic’s infrastructure improvements and growth ambitions while building on Northwestern's world-renowned expertise to help enhance patient care. Read more »
- Too many IT systems with limited alignment impacts care qualityWhat's more, the 2024 Compass Survey from symplr finds that 85% of clinicians say they lose more than an hour each day to administrative tasks – time that could be used for patient care if the right technology was in place. Read more »
- Health system CIOs' strategic responsibilities continue to evolveThe typical chief information officer in healthcare is taking on more responsibility for determining strategy and digital transformation, with 84% of CIOs now part of their organization's executive leadership team. Read more »
- American College of Radiology launches AI quality registryThe goal is to give imaging providers a source for analytics on how their clinical artificial intelligence applications are operating over time. Read more »
- DEA and HHS extend virtual prescribing for controlled substances through 2025The third extension of pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities through the end of next year will give the agencies time to promulgate final regulations and providers time to comply, the agencies said. Read more »
- How to protect telemedicine from cyberattacksA cybersecurity CEO offers advice on tactics healthcare CISOs and CIOs should use to protect sensitive telehealth data, and how providers can adopt a proactive security stance specific to virtual care. Read more »
- Blooms The Chemist integrates Healthengine and more briefsAlso, the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department has launched a new patient portal which already helped reduce duplicate records by a tenth. Read more »
- HIMSSCast: Caregiver input needed for allocation of investment dollarsDr. Kathy Ku is vice president at Vive Collective, a venture capital firm focused on digital health. Kathy is an entrepreneur, an engineer and a former consultant. She holds an MD/MBA from Stanford, where she was a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, and an AB/SM from Harvard, where… Read more »
- Lawmakers ask CDRH to revisit its CDS guidanceIn a letter to the FDA, members of Congress cite confusion over providers' deployment of clinical decision support software that is exempt from medical device regulations and call for clarity from its Center for Devices and Radiological Health. Read more »
- Trump taps former Rep. Doug Collins to head VAThe former GOP congressman from Georgia has served as a U.S. Navy chaplain and is a colonel in the Air Force Reserve. He would inherit a major EHR modernization initiative, currently paused but slated to restart in 2025, among other IT imperatives. Read more »
- DHS intros framework for AI safety and security, in healthcare and elsewhereThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security sees three areas of concern as artificial intelligence is used across critical infrastructure sectors: attacks using AI, attacks targeting AI systems and design, and implementation failures. Read more »
- VA plans to end telehealth copays and fund virtual care access in rural areasThe agency is proposing telehealth access grants to establish fixed, secure environments outfitted with reliable internet and secure video that connect veterans hobbled by the digital divide to health services. Read more »