Policy and Legislation
Health Affairs report shows higher levels of medication adherence and a lower rate of hospitalizations and ER use.
The Medical Group Management Association has sent a letter to the OCR seeking clarification of responsibility.
The American Hospital Association called the FTC ruling, "bad law, bad policy and a clear sign of an agency run amok."
Wendell Primus, a Brookings Institution Visiting Fellow, has a plan to help low-income Medicare beneficiaries.
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The military is working on removing barriers, through technology, for a better quality of life and access to care, says Naomi Escoffery, Chief Accelerator Officer at the Defense Health Agency.
Imposing fines or cutting Medicare payments, in the AHA's view, would diminish resources needed to combat cybercrime.
Witnesses and members of Congress slam insurers for making money while providers struggle.
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Guardrails can't be fully implemented until AI is defined, says Patricia MacTaggart, program director and teaching instructor at George Washington University, who is a 2024 Changemaker Award recipient.
This includes large print, braille, audio recordings and the newest piece, providing documents in the dominant language, says Ernie Crawford, president and CEO of Crawford Technologies.
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HIMSS24 Interoperability Showcase gets solutions out of the lab to demonstrate interoperability between competing vendor products, says Michael Nusbaum, president of MH Nusbaum & Associates.