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"Defeating ISIS: What Are The Lessons For the Future," New America/Flickr, licensed under CC BY 2.0 The Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency this week released a binding operational directive this week requiring federal agencies to patch known exploited vulnerabilities carrying “significant risk” to the federal enterprise. The directive also established a catalog of nearly 300 vulnerabilities, each with […]
The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services aims to protect the integrity of federal healthcare programs, in addition to the health of beneficiaries. “In other words,” said HHS-OIG’s Andrew VanLandingham in a recent interview with Healthcare IT News, “our job isn’t to run the programs, but to […]
Children have specific and unique medical needs – and software supporting their care should be tailored to help address those needs. So the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has published a new informational resource aimed at shaping the specifications of technology products intended for pediatric use. “There are critical functionalities, data elements, […]
Several healthcare organizations and elected officials came together on Thursday in support of legislation safeguarding access to telehealth after the pandemic. “We have seen the positive impact of telehealth across the nation,” said Jen Covich Bordenick, CEO at eHealth Initiative. The temporary waivers issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said Bordenick, […]
A bipartisan group of 38 senators released an open letter on Friday, asking U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma to provide a written plan for permanent changes to Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program rules around telehealth. “We are hearing from […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed new rules that will have a profound effect on how healthcare providers share patient data. The Office for the National Coordinator of Health IT and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are each reviewing industry comments on their proposed rules. HHS clearly intends to […]
It wasn’t too long ago that most IT and security professionals would balk at the very idea of keeping mission-critical data – especially protected health information – in the public cloud. For all the convenience, cost savings and agility remote hosting might offer, after all, the risks of entrusting such precious data to a third […]
When Greenway Health settled the $57.25 million False Claims and Anti-Kickback charges with the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday, the EHR vendor became the second one to meet a similar fate. eClinicalWorks in late May of 2017 settled its own False Claims case to the tune of $155 million. With the major settlements completed, […]
The U.S Food and Drug Administration serves a critical role in healthcare innovation by regulating a range of medical devices and digital health tools. As the industry continues its feverish pace of advancement, the agency itself has been evolving to better vet and approve emerging technologies. Over the last year, in fact, FDA Commissioner Scott […]