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A Few #HealthPolicyValentines

Healthcare IT Today

HealthPolicyValentines pic.twitter.com/nZx2DcTCGI — MA Health Policy Commission (@Mass_HPC) February 13, 2024 Medicare could never negotiate your cost because you are priceless. Be sure to check out our coverage of previous #HealthPolicyValentines as well as some that we found interesting this year below.

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Legislators and healthcare orgs rally in favor of bipartisan telehealth bill

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Wolf also pointed out that the recent bloom in telehealth is rooted, in part, in the government's electronic health record incentive program and meaningful use.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

Redox

Functionally, this type of tool is called an immunization registry , and, luckily for us, it has existed for decades. Lisa is an excellent health tech policy follow, by the way). Meaningful Use Stage 2 in 2012, and made immunization reporting mandatory unless a state had no registry. It also converged on HL7 2.5.1

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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. In “rest of state” (as those of us beyond NYC are sometimes referred to) – there is no need for the HERO – as we’ll see below.

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Building the Future through CMS eHealth

CMS.gov

We are living in a time of rapid and unprecedented change for health IT. Over the next several months, the Office of E-Health Standards and Services will take an active role in engaging physicians, provider associations, payors, and technology developers to identify ways to meet the challenges they face.

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