By Patrizia Cavazzoni MD & Peter Marks MD PhD – Through the Hub, we plan to foster a community at the FDA for open dialogue and knowledge sharing to identify new approaches to drug and biologic development and overcome hurdles that have traditionally impeded progress for rare disease treatments.
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By Terah Tessier & Laura McCrary – We sat down with the KONZA National Network team, one of the initial awardees, to learn how the STAR HIE Program helped support the state’s public health agency exchange health information during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
By Misty Graham – If you’re participating in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System or MIPS Value Pathways, you’ve likely encountered a familiar scenario: you review your estimated MIPS score in your dashboard, only to find that months later, when CMS releases the final score, the numbers don’t quite add up.
From the Health IT Buzz Blog – Earlier this year we celebrated the 20th birthday of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (hereafter ASTP) and reflected on the transformative impact of health IT on patient care delivery in the US.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued its Calendar Year 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule  Final Rule, which includes policies for the Quality Payment Program (QPP) for the 2025 performance year and beyond. This rule will be published on December 9, 2024, in the Federal Register.
By Kim Boyd – A recent study published in Health Affairs examined the current state of Health Information Organizations and their engagement with TEFCA. TEFCA represents a major leap toward creating a unified federal health information exchange, but the study reveals a mix of optimism and hesitancy across the industry.
By Dan Healy and Michael Lipinski – In this blog post we share concerns that have been brought to our attention pertaining to potential violations of the information blocking regulations by health care providers as well as developers of certified health IT.
This ARPA-H program is another action to support the US longstanding commitment to combating antimicrobial resistance, from groundbreaking innovation to international collaboration. Project aims to identify several novel antibiotic candidates to address the threat of antibiotic resistance.