Government & Policy
Health Policy Reform
Veterans Choice Program Extension lets vets seek care at private healthcare institutions, buys time for VA Secretary Shulkin to write a more comprehensive plan for veterans’ healthcare needs.
Electronic Health Records
With a total of 66 products in ONC’s Certified Health IT List, and many of those are modules rather than EHR platforms, hospital IT shops need to check-in with their vendors now.
HHS Secretary Tom Price plans to focus on public health surveillance and the availability of overdose-reversing drugs.
The federal government has proposed requiring that accreditors release reports on the problems they find during hospital inspections. Right now, the reports are secret.
The decision is due by July, but many questions are cropping up about which path is actually best in the long-run.
Cognitive Medical Systems, Motive Medical Intelligence will work to create a more interoperable system for the U.S. Veterans Administration.
But the Department of Veterans Affairs might not have many options unless it wants to continue being in the software development business.
The former Microsoft CEO’s previously-stealth website cost $10 million to launch and will run $3-5 million a year to operate, funding researchers in Seattle and a grant to the University of Pennsylvania.
Cybersecurity has become an enterprise-level risk in healthcare and should be managed like one, CynergisTek says.
The public views Republicans as too extreme to work effectively with even the GOP-controlled Congress, but Democrats don’t fare much better in that regard.