The “Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment” report exposes a range of contributing factors—including poor diet, accumulation of environmental toxins, insufficient physical activity, chronic stress, and overmedicalization.
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The initiative is part of a broader federal effort to reduce regulatory burdens and increase transparency, in alignment with President Trump’s Executive Order 14192, “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation.”
By Stephanie Armour – But even as he extols MAHA, Trump has unleashed a slew of policies likely to make Americans less healthy. He’s slashing 20,000 full time positions from HHS and cutting more than $4 billion in indirect costs related to health research grants, including studies into treatment for Alzheimer’s and cancer.
The Department of Health and Human Services is making stakeholders aware of the availability of the International Da Vinci Project Report. The notice provides the location and information which includes test results from the use of the HL7 FHIR standards approved for use under the HIPAA exceptions process at Title 45 CFR § 162.940.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, Members of Congress are back in Washington, and Republicans are facing hard decisions on how to reduce Medicaid spending, even as new polling shows that would be unpopular among their voters.
HHS announced reorganization plans that will combines personnel cuts, centralization of functions, and consolidation of their divisions.
Steven Posnack, MS, MHS has been named Acting Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and the National Coordinator for Health Information technology for the Department of Health and Human Services.
On February 13, 2025 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was sworn in as 26th Secretary at HHS, and following President Trump signs Executive Order to “Make America Healthy Again”. So finally we have someone that wants us to be healthy?
By Matt Fisher – Prior to the changeover of the administration, the HHS Office for Civil Rights went on a bit of a HIPAA settlement bender. The fast pace of announced settlements felt a bit like a clearing of the decks. The various settlements continued recent trends around the issues being selected by OCR for settlement along with the still random amount of settlements.