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Will telemedicine stagnate without regulatory reform?

Will telemedicine stagnate without regulatory reform?

  • Health

According to a report issued by the National Center of Health Statistics, the percentage of adults who used telemedicine in the past 12 months decreased by 6.9%. As virtual care numbers come back to earth, the industry is adjusting. As Amazon consolidated and repositioned its own telehealth offerings this summer, for instance, it announced $49

Q&A: How redundancy enabled resilience after Crowdstrike outage

Q&A: How redundancy enabled resilience after Crowdstrike outage

  • Health

When CrowdStrike tried to parse a bad Falcon Suite configuration file pushed to millions of Windows machines this past July, the widespread crash took out the whole operating system and its applications – affecting countless machines across numerous industries around the world. The global IT outage caused widespread disruption of healthcare delivery, with many hospitals and

HIMSSCast: Toward safer and more secure use of AI

HIMSSCast: Toward safer and more secure use of AI

  • Health

The overlapping imperatives of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity are becoming ever more important as the two become more intertwined across healthcare in some interesting and challenging ways.  AI, for instance, is more and more being deployed as a critical frontline tool for risk detection and incident response, even as bad actors are also using machine

Publisher’s Platform: Questions that Boar’s Head and FSIS need to Answer

Publisher’s Platform: Questions that Boar’s Head and FSIS need to Answer

  • Food

And, there will be other questions for others too. The great thing about my job is that I know a lot of smart people in Food Safety who really care. Over the last few days people have sent me questions that need to be asked and answered by Boar’s Head and the regulators, FSIS. Also

FDA gets a vote of confidence from NCSL

FDA gets a vote of confidence from NCSL

  • Food

The bipartisan voice for the nation’s state legislatures has expressed new confidence in the federal Food and Drug Administration for food safety. It is supporting adequate Congressional funding for FDA’s new Human Food program. The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), now led by Utah Senate President Pro Temp Wayne Harper, Republican,  has approved a policy resolution reaffirming

FDA highlights Food Safety Month with focus on high-risk groups

FDA highlights Food Safety Month with focus on high-risk groups

  • Food

September marks National Food Safety Education Month, and the Food and Drug Administration is urging Americans to focus on food safety, especially for those at higher risk of foodborne illness. The FDA emphasizes that following four basic steps— clean, separate, cook, and chill — can significantly reduce the likelihood of contracting a foodborne illness. Each

New Zealand sees domestic Campylobacter cases decline

New Zealand sees domestic Campylobacter cases decline

  • Food

Officials in New Zealand have reported progress on a target to reduce domestic foodborne Campylobacter infections in the country. A report prepared by the Institute of Environmental and Scientific Research (ESR) found that the rate of New Zealand-acquired foodborne illness caused by Campylobacter has fallen from 88 to 77 cases per 100,000 population from 2020 to