A key industry cybersecurity group is urging HHS and the National Institute of Standards to emphasize the importance of telehealth providers migrating to more secure platforms, given the eventual end of the COVID-19 public health emergency that has allowed for the use of less-secure platforms not originally built for telehealth. The recommendation is part of a broader letter from the Health Sector Coordinating Council’s Cybersecurity Working Group raising concerns NIST’s guide for protecting health information from cybersecurity threats should offer...

Both patients and providers can be reluctant to discuss social determinants of health factors that are rarely recorded, researchers said at a recent webinar hosted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, although such data is important for public health responses. Catherine DesRoches, the executive director of Open Notes, an organization that advocates for improving health communication through fully transparent medical records, discussed Open Notes’ findings from a review of available studies on clinicians’ and patients’...