Government & Policy

This week's top stories include the Patient ID Now coalition releasing a framework for protecting patient information, President Biden sharing his goal to lower ACA premiums, and Accolade moving into the telemedicine space.

Also, PainChek upgrades its technology to improve care home pain assessment platform.

The president's joint address to Congress focused mainly on job creation and family support, but he also reiterated his backing for a key enabler of telehealth – and called for investments in advanced research at NIH.

The agency is floating new requirements for hospitals to report on syndromic surveillance, immunization registries, electronic case reporting and electronic reportable laboratory results. It also has new plans for quality reporting.

The "Digital Green Certificate" is on track to be rolled out by June.

MHS Genesis has been successfully deployed to 12 new states, said officials in a statement this week.

Built with help from Edifecs, the CAQH Endpoint Directory can help enable more widespread data sharing among app developers, payers and state Medicaid agencies as the new regs come online.

In a recent blog post, Federal Trade Commission attorney Elisa Jillson offered recommendations for using artificial intelligence truthfully, fairly and equitably.

The framework calls on the federal government to partner with other public health authorities and the private sector to ensure patient safety and security.

It will take a village to bring gender equity to health IT, and IMO CEO Ann  Barnes speaks from personal experience on different ways to get there.