Currently the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid have announced the following open proposed rules, They include prospective payment rules, drug pricing, and drug negotiations. Proposed rules are open to comments once they have been printed in the federal registry.
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By Arielle Zionts and Sarah Jane Tribble – In Maine, state health officials hoped to steer a slice of $190 million in new federal rural health funding to shield hospitals and clinics from the fallout caused by cuts to federal health programs. Their plan would have helped pay to treat low-income, uninsured patients.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced new steps to strengthen the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement™ (TEFCA®), the nationwide network that helps patients and healthcare providers securely share electronic health information.
Expanding nutrition services and strengthening the rural workforce will improve access to care, enhance preventive services, and reduce the burden of chronic disease.
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This action restores a unified, Department wide technology leadership model by returning these enterprise responsibilities to OCIO while sharpening ONC’s mission focus on nationwide health IT interoperability and data liquidity.
Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include Equality Health, Legent Health, Carequality, Doceree, Blackbird Health, CellCarta, Rezilient Health, HHS, CDC, Matter Health, Fellow Health, Karoo Health, FDB, Xsolis, Parkview Health, Atropos Health, & Bamboo Health.
Transforming health data liquidity, allowing it to flow securely and seamlessly throughout the system, and securing patient access to that data: As of today, nearly 500 million health records have been exchanged through the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement™ (TEFCA™), up from roughly 10 million in January 2025.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that its Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance program has surpassed one million voluntary participants, marking a significant milestone in the United States’ ability to detect and respond to emerging public health threats at our borders.