As cyberattacks continue to target hospitals and other healthcare organizations, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is failing to meet some of its bigger-picture cybersecurity goals for the sector, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a Nov. 13 report. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) tapped Jennifer Wendel to serve as its permanent chief information officer (CIO) on Nov. 18, according to the agency’s website. […]
As the number of successful cyberattacks on healthcare organizations continues to rise, a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) is calling on HHS to better ensure the protection of electronic protected health information (ePHI). […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has reached a $90,000 settlement with Oklahoma-based Bryan County Ambulance Authority (BCAA) to settle a potential violation of the Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule linked to a ransomware attack against BCAA that breached the provider’s encrypted files and impacted more than 14,000 of its patients. […]
Patrick Newbold will be joining the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) component as its new chief information officer (CIO) and director of the Office of Information Technology. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ research funding agency is seeking information on potential uses for agentic artificial intelligence (AI) in health care. […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is utilizing cloud technology on its path to digital transformation to help it follow its internal mantra of “Buy vs. Build,” according to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Mohammed Sohail Chaudhry. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is set to release a new enterprise-wide AI strategy in January, HHS Acting Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Micky Tripathi said last week. […]
Bob Leavitt is stepping down as chief human capital officer at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after working at the agency for seven years. […]
Data can’t be perfect, but it can be managed using a “food label” approach that reflects who and what the data was created for – all of which can increase the useful of data for artificial intelligence (AI) applications, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) official said on Sept. 12. […]
The Biden administration announced it will reactivate a government website that will allow Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests at the end of September. […]
The Indian Health Service’s electronic health record (EHR) system is the oldest critical information system currently in use in the Federal government, and a top agency official on Tuesday shared details of IHS’s “transformational” effort to modernize that system over the next few years. […]
Healthcare-specific cybersecurity performance goals (CPGs) and the establishment of a cybersecurity gateway are among several ways that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is protecting against threats as cyberattacks on the healthcare industry rise. […]
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) – a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – is researching the use of artificial intelligence technologies in health care with the aim of improving screening and analytics capabilities. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a reorganization that will streamline and bolster technology, cybersecurity, data, and AI strategy and policy functions. […]
The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) announced this week that it is once again extending its Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) contract through April 29, 2025, as the agency works out bid protests for its CIO-SP4 successor. […]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) – a research component of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – National Eye Institute (NEI) has tapped Kevin Chu to serve as deputy chief information officer (CIO) according to his LinkedIn profile. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has chosen Micky Tripathi to serve as the department’s acting chief AI officer (CAIO), an HHS spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is having trouble gaining visibility into the masses of data on its networks even as the agency modernizes IT systems, a top official at NIH’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) said today. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Grants Management Quality Service Management Office (QSMO) is looking for feedback from the vendor community on the state of the commercial grants IT market. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) – released its draft 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment. […]
Lee Ann Crochunis has been named deputy director for the Office of Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). […]
The Advanced Research Projects Agency For Health (ARPA-H) has tapped Alastair Thomson as the agency’s new acting director of data innovation, according to his LinkedIn account. […]
To align with the Biden-Harris administration’s President’s Management Agenda (PMA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has committed to leading the first-ever Agency Priority Goal (APG) dedicated solely to advancing customer experience (CX). […]
The National Institute of Health (NIH) has tapped Sean Mooney to serve as director of NIH’s Center for Information Technology (CIT), starting in mid-March. […]
Nikolaos Ipiotis has been tapped to serve as the new chief information officer (CIO) at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) – an independent agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that supports research in the biomedical and health breakthrough – according to his LinkedIn account. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a new data strategy that aims to advance the agency’s management and use of data to improve health outcomes for all Americans. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a concept paper that outlines the department’s cybersecurity strategy for the healthcare sector, detailing four key actions it will take to advance cyber resiliency in the sector. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has tapped Jennifer Wendel to serve as acting chief information officer (CIO), according to the agency’s website. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is looking to establish a new “program management office support” that aims to back up zero trust security implementation across the department, according to a newly published contract opportunity. […]