The Department of Health and Human Services has filed proposed modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 security rule to strengthen the cybersecurity of electronic protected health information with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The central authority for the review of Executive Branch regulations provided few details, but once

Korea to develop AI-driven regional smart emergency platforms  The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) has announced seven more projects under the Korean Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) initiative. These include two AI-based emergency systems – one is a regional emergency system for patient classification and transfer and the other is

Among Dr. Chris Harle’s many clinical research interests, he’s been keenly focused for years on interoperable decision support tools, helping steer primary care providers toward more guideline-recommended prescribing patterns with more intuitive EHR information design, AI-enabled opioid prediction and risk-stratification tools and other data-driven imperatives related to provider experience, quality improvement, patient safety and population

Data collected on providers’ unauthenticated websites and shared with third parties is still a liability from regulatory agencies and a potential cause for class action litigation, says Iliana Peters, an attorney and shareholder at the legal firm Polsinelli.  Wide scope of third-party data The battle over hospital online data tracking has been going on for the