Netsmart, in collaboration with Epic Systems and MedAllies, has launched a closed-loop data exchange referral system with LifeWorks NorthWest, a behavioral health provider, through the Portland, Oregon-based OCHIN health information exchange. The partnership facilitates the sharing of behavioral health and primary care information within a Federally Qualified Health Center model.  The new capability will help

Maternal mortality is an ongoing crisis in the U.S. According to the most recent data available from 2022, the national maternal mortality rate is 22.3 deaths per 100,000 live births. Sadly, stories of pregnant or recently pregnant people whose maternal health conditions get misdiagnosed or overlooked, leading to severe morbidity or even death, are all

Sunway partners with Medtronic to test surgical robotics Sunway Healthcare Group in Malaysia recently announced its partnership with Medtronic. According to a social media announcement, they signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to improve the centres of excellence at its flagship hospital, Sunway Medical Centre, which specialises in spine, neuroscience, and cardiovascular medicine. 

As the healthcare industry increasingly adopts AI, the landscape of cybersecurity threats is changing rapidly. While AI can enhance patient care and streamline operations, it also introduces new vulnerabilities that cybercriminals may exploit. To help CISOs, CIOs and other healthcare security leaders wrap their hands around this, we spoke with IEEE Member Rebecca Herold, CEO

MD Home Health, a 39-year-old home health agency, has launched omnichannel home health services, what it says is a first for Phoenix and Arizona. The new offerings will include remote patient monitoring, telehealth, a brick-and-mortar clinic at HonorHealth Scottsdale, and traditional in-home services. President and CEO David P. Tusa, who joined MD Home Health in

With less than three months before the clock runs out on telemedicine electronic prescribing flexibilities, Reps. Doris Matsui, D-California, and Earl “Buddy” Carter, R-Georgia, are leading a bipartisan charge to urge the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to strengthen and deliver a better proposal for a controlled substance registry for telehealth providers.  WHY IT MATTERS This

There are many emerging value-based care models in healthcare that are shifting the definition of what professionals have understood it to be. Equality Health is one example of a VBC success story to tell that offers a different view of value-based models – and holds some lessons that healthcare executives can learn from. Equality Health

A recent investigation by The Wall Street Journal revealed that a staggering $50 billion has been pocketed by insurers from Medicare for diseases no doctor actually treated. Perhaps one of the most concerning aspects of this explosion of fraud is the emergence of what industry insiders are calling “instafraud” – a practice where artificial intelligence

Privacy and data usage in the age of artificial intelligence are colliding in healthcare where maintaining trust is as essential as advancing patient care. Secure encryption technologies and regulatory guidance can help to ensure health systems get a handle on protecting the patient data they store and use. Rina Shainski and Dr. Kurt Rohloff, cofounders at

Governance must be built into hospital medical image exchange from the start. That was what Monief Eid, a senior consultant for enterprise imaging and e-health for Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health, stressed in the HIMSS24 APAC session, “Enterprise Imaging and Image Exchange Challenges Across the Globe.” He noted governance, along with interoperability and infrastructure, as a major challenge in