Tuesday, April 18, 2023: Health IT

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has released free online cybersecurity training resources and best practice reports for cybersecurity in health care. Announced Monday, the new resources comprise an online education and training platform called...

Friday, April 7, 2023: Health IT

Digital mental health startups that sprang up during the pandemic would lose the ability to prescribe medicines remotely under a proposed rule from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that would restore the pre-pandemic requirement that patients visit clinicians...

Tuesday, April 4, 2023: Health IT

The homepages of nearly all U.S. hospital websites shared data with third-party trackers in 2021, according to research published Monday in Health Affairs. Of 3,747 hospitals included in the 2019 American Hospital Association (AHA) annual survey, 98.6 percent of their...

Tuesday, February 7, 2023: Health IT

A bipartisan group of senators requested that three telehealth providers provide a list of all third-party platforms they’ve shared user information with over the past three years, along with details about what types of user information they shared. The letters – sent...

Thursday, January 19, 2023: Health IT

A new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analysis suggests that expanded use of telehealth services did not lead to significant cost savings early in the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the analysis, 52 percent of mental health therapy claims in 2020 for people with...

Friday, January 6, 2023: Health IT

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched “Home Test to Treat” – a pilot program that will allow people to receive free testing, consultation, and treatment for COVID-19 from their homes. The agency said it is aiming to offer this service to up to 100,000...