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  1. UC Irvine's AI-powered conversational health agent is ready for developers

    The personalized, large language model-backed framework is designed to provide support for patient needs – whether answering urgent health questions or just lending an empathetic ear.
  2. ONC drafts Federal Health IT Plan for 2024-2030, calls for public comment

    The "outcomes-driven" strategy for the rest of this decade is focused on key goals: boosting access to electronic health information, improving the patient experience by prioritizing health equity and modernizing public health infrastructure.
  3. Proposed CISA rule would require reporting for cyber incidents and ransom payments

    In healthcare, larger hospitals, all critical access hospitals, essential drug manufacturers and Class II and Class III devices would fall under the draft mandatory reporting rules, but health IT developers and others would not.
  4. States step in to hasten provider recovery in wake of Change Healthcare cyberattack

    Washington, Maryland and New Mexico have leveraged funding opportunities and regulatory tools to ease the burden on providers still struggling to operate with claims payments disrupted.
  5. Cybersecurity bill would add caveat to provider payments

    Sen. Mark Warner's legislation would require providers and their vendors to meet minimum cybersecurity standards to qualify.