The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), today released the draft2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment. The draft plan outlines federal health IT goals and objectives that are focused on improving access to health...

We stand at the precipice of a global paradigm shift in healthcare. Outdated, overpriced and obtuse “sickcare” systems are failing us. Here comes generative AI, and it’s coming to healthcare just like every other facet of our economy. It’s a powerful transformative technology that is capable of analyzing vast swaths of data, finding patterns and creating entirely new solutions, and it’s poised to...

Generative artificial intelligencewas the talkof this week's HIMSS 2024 conference in Orlando, Fla., with executives discussing their health systems' plans for the technology. But how do healthcare leaders employChatGPTand similar platforms during their day-to-day jobs?Becker'sasked 12 executives at HIMSS '24 how they've used generative AI at work.

The federal government is pressing UnitedHealth Group and other payers to provide financial relief to providers as they continue to feel the financial disruption caused by the Change Healthcare cyberattack. In a letter to the industrypostedon Saturday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wrote that the incident "has impacted payments...

Some CIOs are struggling to "keep pace" with the huge explosion in outside vendors that has coincided with the hype over artificial intelligence,The Wall Street Journalreported March 4. Besides AI, CIOs are also sifting through a growing number of digital tools and also looking for smaller vendors so they don't rely so heavily on a handful of big companies, Gartner IT researcher...

A Feb. 15 hearing of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization highlighted ongoing pharmacy-related patient safety issues with the transition to the new Oracle electronic health record. Last April, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that all deployments in its EHR Modernization effort would be halted while it prioritized improvements at the...

Spending on home healthcare surged in November, experiencing a 12.9% year-over-year increase, closely trailed by prescription drug spending, which soared 12.2%, according to a Jan. 31reportfrom nonprofit Altarum. Altarum released its latest "Health Sector Economic Indicators" report that sheds light on critical aspects of the nation's health sector. The report offers an analysis of data on...

Data centers can be costly, requiring healthcare organizations to allocate funds toward investments in servers, routers, switches and various other infrastructure elements to sustain them, making CIOs want to get out of the business. Renton, Wash.-based Providence decided to transition away from on-premise data centers five years ago, especially after recognizing that the operational aspect of running data...

Private-sector hospitals, clinics, and insurers are bloated, bureaucratic nightmares compared to efficiently run Veterans Health Administration facilities that put care over profits, a new study reveals. The study, by researchers at Hunter College of the City University of New York, Harvard Medical School, the Veterans Health Administration, and the University of Washington,...