The healthcare sector faces cyber threats on a daily basis, sometimes resulting in disruptions to operations and decreases in quality of care. To ease the risk of cyberattacks and ensure that healthcare organizations are taking steps to safeguard sensitive data, a patchwork of state and federal laws exist. Elizabeth Hodge, partner in the Healthcare Practice Group at Akerman, discusses the healthcare cybersecurity regulatory landscape and how to maintain compliance.

When the coronavirus pandemic put society on hold, Americans had to rearrange their priorities and adopt various methods to cope, some healthier than others. Georgia Gaveras, DO, co-founder and chief medical officer at Talkiatry, explains how the pandemic affected mental health in the US, the pros and cons of telemental health, and more.

In the aftermath of the 2022 Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, patients find themselves navigating a variable legal landscape. While abortion care access may be legal in one state, it may not be in another, and that leaves those in abortion-restriction states, in some cases, traveling out of state for the procedure and putting themselves at risk for civil or criminal penalties. Shield laws have begun to crop up in abortion-legal states to protect these patients—and anyone involved in abortion access—from those legal consequences. In this episode, Manatt Health Partner Randi Seigel and Counsel Alice Leiter outline trends in shield laws.

Healthcare technology innovation and digital health tools have become the backbone of many healthcare processes. How can healthcare leaders best wield these tools in order to make care more affordable and more efficient? With two decades of experience in the healthcare space, Glen Tullman, chief executive officer at Transcarent, shares his insights on how healthcare can catch up with other industries and seamlessly integrate digital health tools.

The American Hospitals Association (AHA) is suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a bulletin on hospital use of tracking technologies. Meanwhile, CMS cut Medicare reimbursement to physicians.

Virtual reality solutions can enhance clinical outcomes and patient experience, particularly in the pain management arena, but there are numerous challenges to widespread adoption. In a Healthcare Strategies episode, Dr. Henry Xiang, director of the Center for Pediatric Trauma Research at Nationwide Children's Hospital, discussed the research into healthcare VR use cases for pain management as well as the benefits and challenges of VR use in healthcare.

Healthcare stakeholders have a wealth of digital health tools to choose from, but some tools do not delivery on their promises. On this Industry Perspectives episode, Caroline Pearson, executive director of the Peterson Center on Healthcare, shares how the Peterson Center on Healthcare's newly-released framework can support stakeholders with digital health tool assessment.

Employees at CVS Health and Walgreens are going on strike over working conditions, and most patients want to send their wearable data to their doctors. Also, the White House released an executive order on artificial intelligence and a proposal to refine the independent dispute resolution process to reduce surprise billing. 

While artificial intelligence (AI) is not new to the payer industry, generative AI has generated quite the buzz. Ginny Whitman, senior manager of public policy at Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP), discusses how payers have reacted to the new tool, how regulatory trends might shape its future, and more.

Moving through the value-based care world can be difficult for providers. Jean-Claude Saghbini, president of value-based care enablement at Lumeris, shared what value-based care enablement looks like and how improving data-sharing between stakeholders can reinforce the relationships that are indispensable to value-based care success.