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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

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In this case, the government moved to protect the public because a subset of meat packers was putting profit above public health. public outcry caused the government to step in and regulate the industry. It’s there to protect us from evildoers. After The Jungle was published. Sometimes they were not.

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The Role of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in Facilitating Seamless Data Sharing Among Healthcare Entities

Healthcare IT Today

High-quality, reliable data is crucial to getting most things done in healthcare, especially for healthcare interoperability. We’ve made some great strides in improving interoperability, in no small part due to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

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Those with political power will retain it, and true public health decisions will be elusive. . Investments in Social Determinant of Health Networks (SDHNs) Development and Performance. Exhibit 2: SDHN Structural and Funding Diagram. Social Care Data Interoperability Exchange. Elsewhere? We’ll have to see.

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Building the Future through CMS eHealth

CMS.gov

What is the most important electronic initiative in health care today? Is it the switch to ICD-10 that will enable us to capture information more accurately? The widespread adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs) to provide an infrastructure for electronic data exchange?

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