GAO Reports, Open Source Frameworks, NPR Interview, and mHealth App Concerns

With so much evolving in healthcare and technology, it can be hard to keep up. And it may be difficult sometimes to see where the work we and our peers do is applied to help caregivers and patients.

That’s why we’ve hand-selected these recent articles our team agrees are worth a quick read affecting the world of healthcare interoperability and other related issues.

• Keynote: Consolidating Military and Veterans Health Care
• GAO Finds Flaw in VA’s Community Care Contracts
• Oversight Offices See Glimmers of Progress in DoD, VA Electronic Health Records

• CDT, eHI Share Proposed Consumer Health Data Privacy Framework
• CTA Intros New Trustworthiness Standard for Healthcare AI
• Reducing Industry Burden Focus of February’s HL7 Da Vinci Project Community Roundtable
• ECRI, EHR Association Put Forth Safety Practices for Behavioral Health IT

Healthcare Topics

• Aide Memoire for Computable Domain Models
• Why Issues With Medical Records Interfere With Vaccine Rollouts
• Mobile Health Apps Systematically Expose PII and PHI Through APIs, New Findings from Knight Ink and Approov Show
• Structured Data Capture for Oncology

• PRSB Launches Vendor Scheme to Support Integrated Care

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