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Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024

Healthcare IT Today

The scope of health data sharing and use of health data have expanded far beyond electronic health record adoption in healthcare settings to encompass data sets inclusive of demographics, behavioral health, social determinants of health (SDOH), and public health.

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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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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

Physicians, hospitals, and health care providers across the country are rushing to adopt new hardware, new software, and new workflow processes that make all of these initiatives possible. Health IT vendors are working hard to build the kind of technology that will realize true electronic interoperability.

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