Policy and Legislation
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The military is working on removing barriers, through technology, for a better quality of life and access to care, says Naomi Escoffery, Chief Accelerator Officer at the Defense Health Agency.
Imposing fines or cutting Medicare payments, in the AHA's view, would diminish resources needed to combat cybercrime.
Witnesses and members of Congress slam insurers for making money while providers struggle.
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Guardrails can't be fully implemented until AI is defined, says Patricia MacTaggart, program director and teaching instructor at George Washington University, who is a 2024 Changemaker Award recipient.
This includes large print, braille, audio recordings and the newest piece, providing documents in the dominant language, says Ernie Crawford, president and CEO of Crawford Technologies.
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HIMSS24 Interoperability Showcase gets solutions out of the lab to demonstrate interoperability between competing vendor products, says Michael Nusbaum, president of MH Nusbaum & Associates.
James McHugh, managing director at Berkeley Research Group, reveals quite positive feelings among provider organization executives on deploying artificial intelligence in the next three years.
CHCs report that Medicaid disenrollment has affected patients across all ages, including those with major health needs.
The merger would allow all employees to keep their jobs, pay and benefits, lawmakers say, and prevent WHS from closing.
UHG can use its leverage to force doctors to limit networks, cut services and see more patients per day to pad its profits, say senators.