Government & Policy

Report on informatics systems in NHS Wales raises "alarming findings"

By Leontina Postelnicu 11:01 am November 08, 2018

The Welsh Assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has questioned the “competence, capability and capacity" across the system to digitise healthcare services in Wales after an inquiry uncovered a “raft of problems”, from delays in the delivery of digital projects to “unclear” lines of accountability.

Health IT takeaways from the midterm elections

By Tom Sullivan 01:23 pm November 07, 2018

What the 116th Congress might mean for the fate of the ACA and healthcare technology.

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NHS Scotland to strengthen cyber resilience with new Microsoft partnership

By Leontina Postelnicu 01:00 pm November 01, 2018

NHS Scotland has signed a new agreement with Microsoft to deploy Office 365 and migrate all systems to Windows 10 E5 during the next three years in an effort to boost cyber resilience and mitigate any potential threats.

NHS Digital to cut 500 jobs in major restructure

By Leontina Postelnicu 10:55 am November 01, 2018

NHS Digital will cut around 500 jobs in a major restructure expected to "change the skills and capability of its workforce", Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock has said.

CMS responds to data breach affecting 75,000 in federal ACA portal

By Susan Morse 12:29 pm October 22, 2018

Open enrollment, which begins November 1, will not be negatively impacted, CMS says.

FDA, DHS to increase collaboration on medical device security and framework

By Jessica Davis 06:16 pm October 17, 2018

While the two federal agencies have worked together on vulnerability disclosures in the past, a new memorandum of agreement will improve coordination.

Sequoia Project launches new public-private interoperability initiative

By Mike Miliard 11:34 am October 17, 2018

The cooperative aims to bring stakeholders together to find new and pragmatic approaches to data sharing, and come up with ways to combat information blocking.

Medical device vendor disables internet updates over hacking risk, FDA alerts

By Jessica Davis 04:56 pm October 12, 2018

The Food and Drug Administration issued a cybersecurity alert on two Medtronic devices that could allow a hacker to hijack the software update process to change the device’s function. Medtronic disabled the online software update to eliminate the flaw. IMPACT

National Health IT Week 2018: Here’s what was said on social media

By Tom Sullivan 10:49 am October 12, 2018

Technology was critical but so, too, were the personal and patient-centric stories shared on Twitter this week.

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AcademyHealth, HIMSS partner on Health Datapalooza

By Jessica Davis 10:33 am October 12, 2018

The two nonprofit health IT groups hope to strengthen public-private partnerships and advance policy, starting by collaborating on the next Health Datapalooza.