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Highlights from the second day of global conference include telehealth legislation, EMRAM Stage 7 achievements and AI. HIMSS Media executive editors discuss.
The program will give access to the technology to pregnant and postpartum people with maternal hypertension and diabetes.
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A proactive and scalable technology model would refocus attention on patient care says HIMSS25 Smart Health Transformation Forum committee members Esther Kim of Mass General Brigham, Kali Arduini Idhe of Northwestern Medicine and Marcee Chmait of Providence.
Catapult Health offers members Virtual Checkup, an at-home wellness kit that includes materials to collect blood samples and check blood pressure.
Amazon surfaces eligible benefits to customers when they search for related products or devices.
The coming year is going to show where AI's practical use cases are going to be in healthcare, say editors from HIMSS Media brands Healthcare Finance News, Healthcare IT News and MobiHealthNews.
FAST is the FHIR at Scale Task Force under HL7 that is looking at implementing guides around identity, consent, security, a national directory and testing how all those things come together, says Janice Reese, program manager of FAST.
The continuation of flexibilities for telehealth and acute hospital care at home rides on federal spending bill.
If Congress doesn’t take action by the end of 2024 to make permanent waivers that have been extended for two years, the country goes back to March 2020 policy, says Tom Leary, senior vice president and head of government relations at HIMSS.
Extension of other PHE waivers for telehealth and remote monitoring awaits action by Congress before the end of this year.