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AI’s Executive Order and Its Key Healthcare Implications 

Healthcare Law Blog

Under the EO, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must establish an HHS AI Task Force in consultation with the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs within 90 days. Establish an AI Task Force. Incentivize Responsible AI Innovation.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Executive Director, VA Office of Electronic Health Records Modernization. Department of Veterans Affairs' effort to modernize its IT systems and create an interoperable EHR shared among VA, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Washington. Windom is leading the U.S. Coast Guard and community care providers.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Advancing Quality of Care

AIHC

At the federal level, government agencies are at various stages of adopting ML-based diagnostic tests. For example, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), through its Veterans Health Administration (VHA), operates the largest integrated health care system in the U.S.

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For Your Information: Government Response to Long COVID

Total Medical Compliance Resources

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Makes Progress in the Whole-of-Government Response to Long COVID U.S. Expanding and strengthening Long COVID care for veterans: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) continues to expand access to care for veterans with Long COVID. Agencies across the U.S.

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2023 may bring progress in SDOH tech, telehealth and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Health equity and technological innovation are top priorities for the healthcare industry – with new standards, technology and policy driving the way. Despite innovations, a new study from the Yale School of Public Health finds the nation is losing ground on access to healthcare, with more barriers now than 20 years ago.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

health-tech startup MemoryWell pivots, eyes new funding to roll out software for insurers Department of Veterans Affairs health system kicks off multiyear Greater Washington expansion Georgetown to open Southeast D.C.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Judge Takes Aim at the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Care Benefits

Kaiser Health News

The same federal judge in Texas who tried — unsuccessfully — to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act in 2018 has ruled that portions of the health law’s preventive care benefit package are unconstitutional. if they had received government subsidies. to fund more efforts for public health preparedness.