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Healthcare IT News provides essential monthly updates for healthcare IT leaders. Recognized with the Jesse H. Neal Award, it features insights on the latest technologies, IT strategies, regulatory matters, and updates from both providers and vendors. In collaboration with HIMSS, this publication is the sole newspaper in the industry, reaching over 54,000 subscribers. Its audience includes IT managers, C-suite executives, and clinical leaders from hospitals, integrated delivery networks (IDNs), group practices, outpatient care facilities, home healthcare services, as well as healthcare payers, consultants, and vendors.

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HHS appoints Dr. Thomas Keane to lead health IT efforts at ASTP

4 days ago | healthcareitnews.com | Mike Miliard

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has named a new leader at the agency formerly known as the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. WHY IT MATTERSDr. Thomas Keane, who has experience as both a clinician and a technology developer, will serve concurrently as the second Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy at HHS, and the ninth National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
FDA introduces 'Elsa,' a genAI tool to drive efficiency

4 days ago | healthcareitnews.com | Mike Miliard

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced the launch of a new generative AI technology that agency leaders will help its employees do their jobs more efficiently.
Epic says providers are sharing widely through its TEFCA QHIN

5 days ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Epic Systems announced it has reached a significant milestone with a significant number of hospitals and clinics exchanging health data across its Qualified Health Information Network. WHY IT MATTERSBy reducing administrative burden, the United States' Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, established to fulfill health data exchange requirements in the 21st Century Cures Act, can help to ensure that any medical provider can participate in nationwide patient data exchange.
Florida provider settles with OCR for $800,000 over HIPAA Security Rule allegations

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Mike Miliard

The Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this week announced that it has reached a settlement with Tampa, Florida-based BayCare Health System over several potential violations of the HIPAA Security Rule. WHY IT MATTERSThe settlement, for $800,000, resolves an OCR investigation into alleged impermissible access to a patient's electronic protected health information, or ePHI, at BayCare.
Vendor notebook: Developing enterprise AI agents with Google tools, and other news

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Google said at a healthcare artificial intelligence roundtable it hosted on Thursday that Agentspace is its fastest-growing artificial intelligence product. Launched earlier this year, the platform and its companion Vertex AI Model Garden allow enterprises to create agents that derive patient insights from multiple data sources.
Connected health needs more provider collaboration for better data integration

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Health systems have generally found success with interoperability among medical devices, electronic health records and other IT platforms. Still, providers have been slower to adopt some of these technologies than expected, hindering wider successes with improving patient outcomes, according to new research from Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
Privia Health succeeding with AI in provider and admin workflows

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Bill Siwicki

Privia Health, based in Arlington, Virginia, has a presence in 15 states and the District of Columbia. It builds scaled provider networks with primary-care centric medical groups, risk-bearing entities and a physician-led governance structure. THE CHALLENGEPrivia Health’s clinics and IT set-up faced several key challenges that impacted both its providers and operational efficiency across the national physician platform.
Kettering Health says radiation oncology is back online after ransomware attack

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Andrea Fox

Ohio-based Kettering Health announced this past Friday that it had stepped up an emergency urgent clinical support line and temporary retail pharmacy contact numbers to ensure care continuity during a system-wide IT outage. The health system also said on social media over the weekend that patients are back in radiation treatment thanks to the commitment of its technical and clinical staff.
Cleveland Clinic neurologist says virtual second opinions fill a widening gap

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Bill Siwicki

The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic, an initiative with telemedicine technology and services company Amwell, has been getting life-changing results from leading-edge virtual care. The Clinic has been providing virtual second opinions by the many top specialists at the renowned healthcare organization. The platform connects patients to more than 3,500 specialists across Cleveland Clinic without the need for the patients to travel to a major medical center.
Pakistan explores AGI use in diagnostics, nurses' training

1 week ago | healthcareitnews.com | Adam Ang

Pakistan is exploring the application of artificial general intelligence, AI that possesses human-like intelligence to perform intellectual tasks, in diagnostics and nursing training. The Pakistan Nursing and Midwifery Council (PNMC), which licenses nurses, midwives, lady health visitors, and nursing auxiliaries in the country, has started collaborating with California-based AI company MindHYVE.ai to address challenges in nursing education.