The Office of Civil Rights is providing a 90-day transition period for  healthcare providers to come into compliance with the HIPAA Rules regarding telehealth, according to the Department of Health and Human Services OCR.  The transition period will be in effect beginning on May 12 and will expire at 11:59 p.m. on August 9.

Just 5% of U.S. adults say a doctor or other healthcare professional has talked to them about gun safety, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation report on Americans’ experiences with gun-related violence.

Healthcare must be responsive to the consumer needs for convenience, and virtual care and AI will help get us there, says Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman in a preview of his HIMSS23 session with HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf.   

A HIMSS23 presentation on three data projects in the real world will feature the National Institutes of Health’s Sarah Warner, Premier’s Ning Rosenthal and Myla Maloney, and the University of Washington School of Medicine’s Dr. Ferric Fang.  

At HIMSS23, Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, an otolaryngologist and AMA Board of Trustees member, will speak on the ways technology can grant access to improve equity in healthcare.  

A federal jury has convicted three former executives of Outcome Health, a Chicago-based health technology start-up company, for their roles in an alleged fraud scheme that targeted the company’s clients, lenders and investors and involved roughly $1 billion in fraudulent financial gain, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.