By Dafe Ofoh – Healthcare organizations often evaluate interoperability by asking whether data can move from one system to another. That is necessary, but it is not enough. A workflow is not complete when information arrives. It is complete when the right person can see the evidence, understand the current state, make the required decision, and hand the work forward with a traceable record.

The MATCH IT Act addresses the problem of patient misidentification within the healthcare ecosystem. The bill would create an industry standard definition for how patient match rates are measured and would improve standardization of patients’ demographic elements entered into certified health IT products to ensure patients are accurately matched with the correct medical record.

We are seeking out the latest developments around virtual healthcare. News from VevaRx, DirectMeds, MedVirtual, SWORD Health, VSee Health, Andor Health, MD Integrations, American Telemedicine Association, VirtuAlly, MUSC Health, Solace Health, and more.

By Steve Akers – Healthcare security programs were built around an assumption that no longer holds everywhere: that a human sits on the other end of an attack, working at human speed and making human mistakes. That is why the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, in a joint advisory this past June, told member nations plainly that the timeline for adversaries to reach this level of capability is not years. It is months.