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.

ATA Action, the ATA’s affiliated organization focused on Advocacy Shaping Virtual Care, submitted comprehensive comments to CMS on the Calendar Year 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, offering detailed recommendations to strengthen program integrity while preserving patient access to remote monitoring and other essential virtual care services.

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.