The new equity guide provides implementation steps to help developers and users implement the AHRQ Digital Healthcare Equity Framework to ensure new technologies ameliorate, rather than exacerbate, inequities in health care.
Dave Bailey, VP of Consulting Services at Clearwater Security, highlights the need for top-down support in managing healthcare-related cyber risks and how the new NIST Cybersecurity Framework can help enhance cybersecurity in healthcare and MedTech organizations.
Although 61% of decision-makers at healthcare organizations said their firms invested at least $100 million in digital transformation initiatives over the past year, 65% of those respondents said their firms have translated less than half of those investments into tangible business value. These numbers highlight the challenges of digital transformation with data siloes posing the biggest threat to success.
Mayo Clinic News Network/ — In a review published in Cancers, the researchers note that this emerging class of AI offers an innovative way to use massive datasets to help discover the complex causes of diseases such as cancer and improve treatment strategies.
Cardio Diagnostics announced issuance of new U.S. Patent for “Compositions and Methods for Detecting Predisposition to Cardiovascular Disease.”
Following a “alarming” increase in medical device submissions containing unreliable data, the FDA is reminding manufacturers and study sponsors that they are responsible for qualifying third-party test labs and closely scrutinizing all testing data.
A new survey from Frost & Sullivan highlights the key barriers to adoption of real world data and analytics in health care and life sciences.
Decoding the legal framework for faster time-to-market.
Behavioral health providers were excluded from the 2009 HITECH Act, which contributed to significant disparities in EHR adoption between mental and physical health providers. The Behavioral Health Information Technology (BHIT) Coordination Act could help remedy this, yet regulatory and societal barriers to full interoperability remain.
On October 30, President Biden issued an Executive Order establishing new standards for artificial intelligence (AI). The order focuses on safety and security, privacy protections, advancement of equity and civil rights, promotion of innovation and competition and advancing American leadership in AI.
