ORLANDO – For the first time, the Indian Health Service has a contract to install a new electronic health record connecting tribal communities across 37 states.  The initiative was a massive undertaking involving the National Indian Health Board, tribal groups, states and the federal government, with the help of HIMSS.

Robert Havasy, senior director of informatics strategy at HIMSS, says HIMSS24 attendees are showing results from AI use and talking about how to regulate it, as well as whether it could be used to re-focus and speed up interoperability efforts.  

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm convened a meeting of payers on Monday to discuss actions they could take to mitigate the harm caused by the Change Healthcare cyberattack.

Total Health Care Expenditures (THCE) in Massachusetts totaled $71.7 billion in 2022, and from 2021 to 2022, THCE per capita increased 5.8% to $10,264 per resident – far above the national rate of 4.1%, according to a new report from the Center for Health Information and Analysis.