HiMSS Pays Up; HHS Secretary Confirmed by Senate

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

That's why we've hand-selected these recent articles featuring the world of healthcare interoperability and other related issues that our team finds to be worth a quick read.

• VA Launches Strategic Review, Considers Schedule Changes Amid Concerns With New EHR
• Federal AI Diagnostics Research Advanced During COVID-19
• Bipartisan Group of Senators Ask VA to Rank and Prioritize Unfunded IT Projects

• Senate Narrowly Confirms Xavier Becerra as Health and Human Services Secretary
• HHS Awards HIE Funding to Boost Patient Data Exchange in Texas

• $2.8M Deal Ends Suit Over Pocketed Health Trade Show Fees

Healthcare Topics

• Clinical Data Sharing Improves Quality Measurement and Patient Safety
• IFHIMA White Paper Fosters ICD-11 Planning, Adoption Around World
• Embedding Health Equity as a Patient Safety, Clinical Quality Issue
• Half of Providers Don’t Utilize Health Information Exchange
• Optimized EHR Flowsheets Found to Reduce Clinician Burden, Burnout
• Why is it so Hard to Build Government Technology?

International

• Great North Care Record and Cerner Achieve 'First-of-Type' for Unscheduled Care

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