Groundbreaking Health Data Partnership
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced a collaborative partnership to develop a comprehensive “real-world data platform” focused on autism research. This…
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– The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it is taking immediate action to implement President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order, “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American…
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Funding shortfalls and workforce shortage leave small, rural and resource-constrained healthcare providers especially vulnerable to ransomware attacks that disrupt care delivery. That’s a reality that cannot be ignored, according to a new report, prepared…
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A pair of recent announcements from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services show agencies working to help providers and payers reduce their data exchange burdens and enable Medicare enrollees to better manage their…
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The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are working together to build what they’re calling a “real-world data platform” that can be used to research claims information, electronic…
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Farqad Moshili, Graphiant Engineering Staff
The evolving cyber threat landscape has driven the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to propose significant updates to the HIPAA Security Rule, a first in 12 years, with more stringent…
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Micky Tripathi, the former assistant secretary for technology policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and National Coordinator for Health IT, has reportedly accepted a new post overseeing artificial intelligence at Mayo Clinic. We…
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Major Reorganization Disrupts Federal Healthcare Operations
The sweeping reorganization at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has eliminated entire departments with little explanation about how critical IT and digital infrastructure will be…
With the reorganization of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced last week, there’s been little explanation of why whole departments have been cut. There’s also been no analyses shared on how…
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Mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will impact the medical device regulatory process, says Ben Wolf, partner in Alston & Bird’s…
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