Healthcare Information Sharing Must Expand Beyond Its Hospital-Centric Focus
Upended by chronic diseases and community realities, healthcare needs to shift its priorities to post-acute environments.
What Full-Circle EMS–Hospital Interoperability Looks Like in Practice
From field documentation to post-discharge outcomes, interoperability isn’t a future ideal — it’s a present necessity. Here’s what seamless EMS–hospital data exchange looks like, and why it matters now.
How Artera is Using Agentic AI to Humanize Patient Care
Artera President Tom McIntyre talks about the practical application of AI in healthcare.
How a Bipartisan Program Can Help You Avoid Costly Health Insurance Renewals
The status quo is simply untenable for many companies as health insurance costs spiral. From family-owned businesses to large enterprises, employers are taking advantage of an alternative designed by politicians on both sides of the aisle.
HHS’s Information Blocking Disincentives are a Necessary Step Toward Better Patient Care
These disincentives may seem harsh, but we must remember the real stakes involved — when medical records are not readily available at the point of care, patients suffer.
To Give Rare Disease Patients Hope, the FDA Must Re-Focus its Efforts
To bring cross-agency clinical leaders together, the FDA should establish a Center of Excellence for Rare Diseases. This would bring together specialized staff and resources from multiple review divisions to leverage their expertise about different bodily systems, trial designs, pharmacology, and other specialized fields.
Health IT Firms Could Be Fined Up to $1M for Info Blocking Starting 9/1
Beginning September 1, HHS’ Office of the Inspector General will begin enforcing the anti-information blocking regulations laid out in the 21st Century Cures Act. EHR vendors are the entities that are most at risk of being fined — they could face penalties up to $1 million.
The Mechanics of a More Connected Healthcare Ecosystem [Video]
Arbiter’s Anjali Jameson on hospital and payer alignment.
Now is the time for health tech to capitalize on legislation moves
The onus is on providers, payers and their technology partners to use the new laws and market dynamics as a catalyst to fully achieve digital transformation in healthcare and improve the patient experience.
21st century cures: What ONC and CMS final rules mean for your ambulatory care practice
Since ONC is the certifying body for EHRs, providers must be prepared to transition to a new “Cures Edition” version of its software before the end of 2022.
HHS creates plan to make EHRs less painful for docs
The Department of Health and Human Services put out a series of strategies to reduce the amount of time physicians spend on documentation on Monday. The report includes suggestions to standardize certain elements of EHRs, and bring federal reporting requirements up to date.
FDA oncology division taps Syapse to better incorporate real-world evidence
The organizations will collaborate on efforts to pull real-world data from a number of sources including EHRs, data registries and testing labs and determine their utility in making regulatory decisions.
Beyond Analytics: How Sellers Dorsey is Hard-Coding Value into Medicaid Policy [Video]
How to turn analytics into actual policy outcomes.
All of Us caps one-year anniversary with the release of new data browser tool
More than 230,000 people have started the process of joining the research program and more than 142,000 have completed the program's first research protocol.
Interoperability in healthcare: Why we’re only getting started
During the Redox and Matter Healthcare Interoperability Summit in Chicago, a panel of investors and executives discussed where we are and where we're going in terms of interoperability in healthcare.
The pediatric landscape is changing: It’s time to jump on the bandwagon
Larger medtech companies have traditionally shied away from investing in the pediatric market...
Make no mistake: Cuts to healthcare won’t be superficial
It's not just new research that will suffer if proposed healthcare budget cuts are approved, writes Syapse Founder and President Jonathan Hirsch. The basic foundations of healthcare, including public health databases, are also on the line.
Soon-Shiong appointed to national health IT advisory committee
NantWorks' Patrick Soon-Shiong and leaders from Norton Healthcare and Sutter Health have been appointed to a new Health IT Advisory Committee formed through the passing of the 21st Century Cures Act.