Kaiser Permanente has completed its acquisition of Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger, first announced a year ago, and the health system is now the inaugural member of Risant Health, a Kaiser spinoff focused on advancing and accelerating value-based care models. WHY IT MATTERS Risant Health plans to acquire four or five other community-based health systems in the

With current pandemic-era flexibilities for telemedicine set to expire at the end of 2024, several telehealth groups and major health systems are calling on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to work faster in crafting a new proposed rule regulating the prescribing of controlled substances via telehealth. The American Telemedicine Association, the Alliance for Connected Care

Johns Hopkins Chief Information Security Officer Darren Lacey describes the security crisis facing healthcare by envisioning a scenario in another industry.  “Imagine you are incrementally improving your controls in, say, financial management,” he says. “And suddenly you wake up and all transactions are now done in bitcoin or some new exotic currency. All those people

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 incident, and

Sentara Health, a health system serving Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina, has undergone a transformation to what it calls One Sentara – a strategic aligning of its provider and payer organizations to create a seamless and affordable experience for its customers. THE PROBLEM Prior to the One Sentara realignment, the care delivery side and health

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 The State

Leidos’ Partnership for Defense Health announced the deployment of MHS-Genesis, the U.S. Defense Department’s Federal Electronic Health Record system, at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (Lovell FHCC) in Chicago. The deployment was the first time DoD and Department of Veterans Affairs, the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office and the Leidos

Sutter Health, one of Northern California’s largest healthcare providers, is teaming up with Abridge, a healthcare AI startup focused on clinical documentation, to offer the service to its physicians and clinicians across the state. The aim of the technology is to reduce the time required by medical professionals to complete administrative tasks including writing clinical

The Biden Administration on Thursday announced new government-wide policies from the White House Office of Management and Budget governing the use of artificial intelligence at federal agencies, including many focused on healthcare. WHY IT MATTERS The aim of the new policies, which build off President Biden’s sweeping executive order back in October, is to “mitigate

The Indonesian Ministry of Health, through the Center for Data and Information Technology, has recently announced the results of the 2023 digital maturity assessment for provincial and district/city health services, hospitals, and health service facilities. Supported by the United States Agency for International Development-The Country Health Information and Data Systems Use, the assessment revealed that