FTC moves to strengthen Health Breach Notification Rule’s applicability to digital health apps
Regulators are increasingly leaning on the HBNR to crack down on the sharing of sensitive medical data, and the FTC seeks to strengthen its case.
Regulators are increasingly leaning on the HBNR to crack down on the sharing of sensitive medical data, and the FTC seeks to strengthen its case.
Suki incorporates generative AI to “listen” to clinician-patient encounters and auto-generate clinician notes, but says clinicians maintain ultimate control.
Conversation about pharmacy benefit management consolidation dominated a Wednesday House hearing, with lawmakers pointing to the middlemen as drivers of high health costs.
The World Health Organization warned that caution is not being exercised with the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, and called for rigorous oversight of the new technology.
The Department of Veterans Affairs said the new contract includes stronger performance metrics and larger credits to the VA if Oracle Cerner doesn’t meet expectations.
The regulator is probing the business practices of two more drug purchasing organizations, deepening an investigation that began last year.
“Insurers are in effect denying Americans necessary care in order to fatten and pad their bottom lines, and that phenomenon is unacceptable,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said at the hearing.
The findings reflect government subsidies aimed at boosting healthcare access during the pandemic, and requirements that states keep Medicaid beneficiaries on their rolls during the public health emergency.
To improve price transparency, the government could consider extending reporting requirements to more provider sites or making compliance a condition of participating in Medicare, witnesses testified in a Tuesday hearing.
Included’s care teams will now be able to coordinate in-home care for patients after a telehealth visit through Dispatch’s network of medical practitioners.