Privacy and Security
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Friday, September 11
Today’s strongest thread is operational accountability: Congress is putting physician payment and cybersecurity on one docket, ONC is giving implementers…
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AI Governance
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Tuesday, September 8
Today’s useful signals all expose the same policy failure: safeguards and access rules look tidy at the product or agency level, then fray where…
AI Governance
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Friday, September 4
Today’s useful signal is a three-front implementation test: a payer is promising less paperwork, an AI vendor is bringing patient-chart context into a…
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Thursday, September 3
Today’s actionable work sits one layer below rulemaking: ONC has put terminology infrastructure into public hands, while HL7 has put a short…
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Tuesday, September 1
CMS’s Prior Authorization API FAQ, modified August 31, now clarifies how decision clocks, later documentation requests, and Coverage Requirements…
Telehealth
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Monday, August 31
The FCC has opened a substantive Rural Health Care Program docket on how rural broadband support is calculated and administered.
Briefing
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Friday, August 28
No fresh development cleared the evidence-and-action gate this morning.
Briefing
CMS Is Starting to Count What Hospital-at-Home Care Actually Looks Like
Hospital-at-home policy has generated its share of big claims: more flexibility, more patient-centered care, perhaps a different future for inpatient…
Briefing
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Thursday, August 27
CMS opens a new Hospital at Home service-intensity data collection.
Briefing
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Wednesday, August 26
FDA opens a short international-scheduling comment window that includes etomidate.
Briefing
HHS Opens a Review of How Federal Vaccine Recommendations Are Classified
HHS has opened a public inquiry into the labels that sit beneath federal vaccine recommendations: routine, risk-based, and shared clinical decision-making.
Briefing
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Tuesday, August 25
Federal Register/public inspection (three-day window), OIRA, federal agencies, Congress, standards/coding, trade press, CPT/legal, and implementation…