Weekly Roundup – December 23, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. New HIPAA Security Rule – and Enforcement – Is Coming in 2024. Mike Semel said updates to the HIPAA Security Rule should be in place by the end of next year, as ONC plans to release a draft rule in the spring. Along the same lines, we can expect HHS to ask for additional enforcement authority for OCR so the agency can clear its backlog of HIPAA data breach incidents. Read more… The Advantages of Human Scribes for Clinical Notes. Instead of using AI alone, Speke is betting on the idea that clinicians will prefer a combination of ambient clinical voice together with human scribes to create high-quality notes, Vadim Khazan told John Lynn. Read more… QHIN Commentary at the ONC Annual Meeting. John made it to DC for the ONC Annual Meeting for the first time. He got reactions from the leaders of the five designated QHINs, along with two groups that should finish the QHIN application process shortly – and got everyone to share things that people don’t understand (yet) about QHINs. Read more… Lock Sockets: A Simple But Valuable Solution. Hospitals keep careful tabs on smartphones and tablets, but charging cables seem to have a habit of getting up and walking away. That̵...
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