Andrea Fox

Boston

Senior Editor at Healthcare IT News

I'm a writer who also loves water, food, and green living.

Articles

HHS updates regulatory guides for the safe use of EHRs

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy has released an update of guidance documents that healthcare organizations use to assess and optimize the safety of their electronic health record systems.
Former National Coordinator headed to Mayo Clinic, reports say

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Micky Tripathi, the former assistant secretary for technology policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and National Coordinator for Health IT, reportedly accepted a new post overseeing artificial intelligence at Mayo Clinic. We reached out to Mayo Clinic for a statement and will update this story if one is provided.
Dayton VAMC rolls out IT upgrades ahead of EHR transition

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

The Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio is working on endpoints, switches, fiber runs and more as it prepares for a switchover to Oracle Health as one of the planned rollouts of the VA's electronic health record modernization program. WHY IT MATTERSThe Dayton VA Medical Center is in the midst of an IT infrastructure upgrade that will make way for the new EHR, Jennifer DeFrancesco, the medical center's director, toldDayton Daily News.
Vendor notebook: Google and IBM make moves on clinical and business AI

2 weeks ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

IBM and Google announced separate initiatives this week that use artificial intelligence in new ways to, respectively, expand enterprise intelligence services and surface clinical information at the point of care. Also, a new partnership seeks to improve social determinants of health program efficacy, reduce costs and deliver better outcomes for healthcare payers, providers, payviders, employers, patients and other healthcare stakeholders.
HHS employees fear IT staff reductions could destabilize agency

2 weeks ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

With the reorganization of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced last week, there's been little explanation of why whole departments have been cut. There's also been no analyses shared on how IT and digital infrastructure systems will be managed, their security maintained and program operations assured after the intended upheaval.
AI being used more often at point of care, KLAS research shows

2 weeks ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

In a new report on health artificial intelligence adoption, researchers at the Arch Collaborative took a wide-angle view of the evolving AI landscape rather than focusing on a specific type of health IT functionality. WHY IT MATTERSDepartmental adoption is the most common strategy healthcare organizations are taking to implement AI systems to better balance financial constraints and workforce limitations, according to the KLAS Healthcare AI 2025 report.
Lawmakers target DOGE threats to veterans' healthcare, data privacy

2 weeks ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill, in an effort to protect service veterans' federal jobs and contracts – and their healthcare, and the sensitive health data entrusted to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs – are taking action. They're holding hearings, hosting roundtable public discussions with fired vets and drafting new laws designed to protect service members from the actions of the Trump Administration and its Department of Government Efficiency. For instance, Sen.
VA names more sites for 2026 EHR deployments

3 weeks ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

The Veterans Administration is planning to roll out its Oracle electronic health record next year at medical facilities in five states, the agency confirmed on Monday.
Q&A: Rural hospitals need help with cybersecurity survival

3 weeks ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox |Andrea Fox

Small and rural hospitals are seeking strategies to find their way through the dangerous surge of healthcare cyberattacks. It's a challenge for many of them. For instance, most of the 550 or so rural hospitals working with Microsoft on cybersecurity training have struggled to maintain basic cyber hygiene practices, such as multi-factor authentication and timely patching of known vulnerabilities, the company noted last month.
Senators demand justifications for mass HHS layoffs

3 weeks ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Writing to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.