Government & Policy

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.

"We don't need patchwork solutions. We need structural solutions," said Emanuel, a member of President Biden's COVID-19 advisory board, in a wide-ranging HITN interview.

The agency has been attempting to replace its decades-old core financial system with an integrated one for years.