Dr. Doug Fridsma, CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association, has been working on the nuts and bolts of interoperability […]
UK HealthTech Advisory Board members announced
The UK’s HealthTech Advisory Board, created to help guide the government and look at transforming the use of technology across the […]
3 Massachusetts hospitals fined nearly $1 million by OCR for HIPAA violations
Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital settled with the Office of Civil Rights for $999,000 […]
NHS England to invest in AI over the next twelve months
NHS England will invest in artificial intelligence (AI) over the next 12 months, NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens told […]
HRSA to give $125 million to community health centers for IT-enabled quality improvement
The Health Resources and Services Administration is awarding $125 million in grants to 1,352 community health centers nationwide, seeking to […]
HHS eliminates 20 years of evidence-based medical guidelines
The federal government eliminated nearly 20 years of medical guidelines accumulated and curated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. […]
ONC opens innovation contest for Certified Health IT Product List data
The Certified Health IT Product List Data Challenge, launched this past week by the Office of the National Coordinator for […]
House forms committee to track VA Cerner EHR modernization project
The House Committee on Veterans Affairs approved the creation of the Subcommittee on Technology Modernization on Thursday, which will provide […]
VA spent $3 billion over 3 years to maintain VistA EHR, GAO says
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs spent about $3 billion from 2015 to 2017, an average of $1 billion a […]
VA to Congress: First Cerner EHR install will go live by 2020
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ EHR project will go live in the Pacific Northwest and by fully functional by […]