As the digital health space continues to expand, new opportunities are emerging that enable companies to act in the public good by making healthcare accessible online. Along with the emerging opportunities available in this industry it s important to understand the dynamics that have, historically, made it difficult to enter the health e-commerce space.
President Joe Biden proposed a $6 trillion budget on Friday, aimed at expanding economic opportunity, improving education and creating a DARPA-like agency tasked with healthcare innovation, among other investments.
The budget, which expands on congressional allocations authorized under COVID-19 relief bills, focuses on what Biden s administration calls building back better, a slow pivot from the devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.
The budget s health IT initiatives include broadband expansion, strengthening public health infrastructure and bolstering cybersecurity. For all of the hard-won progress our Nation has made in recent months, we cannot afford to simply return to the way things were before the pandemic and economic downturn, with the old economy’s structural weaknesses and inequities still in place, the budget reads.
The Biden administration's fiscal 2022 proposed budget for the Department of Health and Human Services calls for an increase in spending to protect HHS from
LGBTQ advocates are pushing a federal agency to include the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity among patients health records when it releases an update this summer on what information should be exchanged between heath care providers, governmental agencies, and other groups.
The federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is expected to publish on July 1 version 2 of the United States Core Data for Interoperability, known as USCDI v2. It sets the standards nationwide for health information exchange and establishes the baseline for what data is commonly exchanged across care settings for a wide range of uses.
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