Andrea Fox

Andrea Fox is Senior Editor at Healthcare IT News. She has 20 years of experience covering numerous beats, including digital modernization, public health, environment and utilities, transportation and government policy and operations.

Doctor speaks with mother and child
By Andrea Fox 08:41 pm March 24, 2025
The health system is establishing a new center for artificial intelligence to enhance diagnostics, personalize treatments and optimize healthcare delivery for adolescents – and plans to implement clinical trials at the Kravis Children’s Hospital.
caregiver at patient bedside reviews prescription information with a virtual care prescriber on a tablet
By Andrea Fox 10:49 am March 24, 2025
The agencies' special telehealth registries will also be postponed with this latest delay of long-awaited telehealth prescribing guidance.
veteran draws on a whiteboard with a colleague
By Andrea Fox 10:55 am March 21, 2025
While the department says the contracts are "non-mission-critical or duplicative," several of those canceled in March were for veteran-owned businesses that were focused on the safety and integrity of the ongoing electronic health record rollout.
Doctor on a telehealth visit
By Andrea Fox 02:55 pm March 19, 2025
While healthcare organizations applaud lawmakers' support for extending flexibilities in FY25 stopgap legislation, they still have concerns about long-term certainty for virtual care.
Google Cloud booth at HIMSS
By Andrea Fox 10:46 am March 19, 2025
Also, DrFirst earns HITRUST for electronic prior authorization, e-prescribing, patient engagement and other healthcare tools.
HIMSS25 Las Vegas main entrance
By Andrea Fox 10:32 am March 18, 2025
Artificial intelligence agents coordinating tasks across healthcare workflows were the talk of HIMSS25. In the year ahead, AI is expected to progress cautiously beyond ambient listening to effect new automation in electronic health records.
NHS logo
By Andrea Fox 10:56 am March 17, 2025
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the organization will be reintegrated into the UK Department of Health and Social Care within two years. The agency pledges to reinvest cost savings into frontline services.
By Andrea Fox 10:12 am March 14, 2025
More tech companies, and the government, are needed to address rural healthcare cyberattacks, according to the new Microsoft rural hospital cybersecurity landscape report. 
Nurse checks her tablet
By Andrea Fox 10:45 am March 13, 2025
Innovaccer, Veradigm and other companies are integrating real-time healthcare data, analytics and artificial intelligence-enhanced workflows into payer and provider systems to improve patient outcomes and care delivery.
 Michael Allen, senior clinical informatics nurse at Indiana University Health
By Andrea Fox 10:33 am March 12, 2025
Nurses with less than two years of experience increase their confidence in performing during electronic health record outages after escape room-style training, Michael Allen of Indiana University Health said at HIMSS25.

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