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Government & Policy
The modified deal now includes much bigger monetary credits to VA if the company doesn’t meet key performance accountability metrics, and resets the partnership to five one-year terms.
The company's ANNE One platform allows for wireless monitoring of neonates and infants' skin and body temperature, heart and respiratory rates, and more.
The 17-step road map is meant to help sort out shared healthcare cyber hygiene responsibilities, giving policymakers and providers direction toward protecting patient safety in the face of cyber threats.
The ATA applauded the extension through Nov. 11. Working with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the DEA has also offered a one-year grace period for doctor-patient telemedicine relationships established before that date.
The requirements would result in federal savings, but would pass costs on to states and cause large coverage losses, data shows.
As the PHE ends this week, Christopher Johnson, president and co-CEO of TeleTracking, which worked with HHS on data collection during the pandemic, offers his views on the transition – and discusses some potential lasting changes to healthcare.
"The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency marks a tremendous transition for our country, for public health, and in my tenure as CDC Director."
The agency says it is reviewing a deluge of comments on its February proposed rulemaking ending telehealth prescriptions for certain controlled substances. It's unclear how far this new extension will last beyond the end of the PHE.
It leverages population-level data on stroke patients from more than 10,000 healthcare facilities connected to the state HIE to track stroke incidence by area and identify demographic and other trends.
Andrea Palm, deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, says the agency is striving to "put the people we serve at the center of what we do." Meanwhile, ONC officials offer updates on new Cures Act rules.
