By Chiquita Brooks-LaSure – The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many shortcomings in our health care system, especially the ability to quickly share and use reliable data to better understand the health needs of all people across the country. This need for more accessible data is why CMS remains committed to making health care data flow more freely…
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By William Hersh MD – As is the tradition with this blog, I end each year with a reflective look at the year past and what the future may hold. The year 2021 is not ending quite like I anticipated. At the beginning of the year, there were stirrings of optimism.
The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of December that we think deserve sharing again.
By Art Gross – Recently the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) along with the Office for Civil Rights issued an announcement regarding extreme risk protection order laws and the disclosure of protected health information.
New On Demand Healthcare Upside/Down: With guest Kristin Begley, chief commercial officer at Wildflower Health. She joins Dr. Nick to discuss the role of the family chief health officer and how to make their job easier.
By Dan Matthews – Medicine and technology have always gone hand-in-hand. This fact has perhaps never been more apparent today, with some of the most powerful and innovative technologies, from robotics to artificial intelligence to Big Data are proliferating in the modern healthcare industry to fight disease and save lives.
By Art Gross – In 2019 we witnessed the Office for Civil Rights make it public that they were going to up their efforts when it came to enforcing the rights of an individual to access their health records. This is known as the HIPAA Right of Access initiative.
By Jeff Shuren MD JD & William Maisel MD MPH – Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, staff at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health have worked tirelessly to manage unprecedented workload demands to help increase access to high quality, critical products that are essential to our nation’s pandemic response.
By David Burda – As I’ve said before, healthcare providers know how to make patient care as safe as possible. They just lack the total commitment and the right financial incentives to do so. With that bias in mind, another report destined for an email or file folder is out on how to make care safer.