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Coalition encourages employers to offer obesity coverage
A number of healthcare organizations have signed an open letter pushing for employers to cover obesity the same way they would for any other chronic condition.
Blue Cross NC reorganizing with parent company
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina said recently that it will be modernizing its operational structure through the creation of CuraCor Solutions, a North Carolina-based nonprofit parent holding company whose subsidiaries will include Blue Cro…
Health leaders need AI know-how to avoid cyberattacks
LAS VEGAS – Artificial Intelligence in healthcare comes with a lot of hype, but there’s also a lot of concern – about how it can be used to attack, and how it can be abused.
Etay Maor, chief security strategist at Cato Networks, said at HIMSS25 in Las…
Kentucky making data on foster children interoperable
LAS VEGAS – The Commonwealth of Kentucky saw a need: Foster children often have complex health needs, and in order to more effectively address them, it established the Health Information Data Sharing (KHIDS) initiative, an effort that seeks to ameliora…
Logistics robots bringing Samsung Medical Center into the future
LAS VEGAS – Intelligent logistics robots and social robots are having a transformative impact on healthcare. Health systems across the globe are experiencing workforce shortages, and robotics holds the promise of automating certain non-critical tasks, …
Influx of wearables data means clinicians should be ready
LAS VEGAS – Smartwatches and other wearable devices can capture more information than is displayed on an ICU monitor, and while data from ICU monitors is still essential in patient care, wearable data is often ignored as a part of outpatient care. But …
Colorado recognizes data sovereignty for tribes
LAS VEGAS – When promoting health in tribal communities, it’s important for public health departments to respect and understand tribal sovereignty – including when it comes to healthcare data.
Fairfax County modernized data with a focus on people
LAS VEGAS – Fairfax County Health Department in Northern Virginia was in a unique position: It’s the largest county and health district in the state, and only one of three that’s locally administered. It also experienced a wake-up call during the COVID…
Healthcare data modernization requires advocacy, funding
LAS VEGAS – Healthcare data needs to be modernized, and any modernization effort needs funding to be viable. Advocacy is critical in this regard, and one advocacy campaign, centering on public health surveillance, has seen success in recent years.
Efforts to modernize healthcare data advancing
LAS VEGAS – Healthcare, as a business, lives and dies on the data. The goal of public health data modernization is to move from silos, brittle public health data systems to connected, resilient and sustainable “response-ready” systems that can help to …
