Briefing
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Monday, August 24
No fresh item cleared the evidence-and-action gate this morning; the policy machinery is moving, but mostly in circles.
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Briefing
HHS Opens a Reconsideration of How Federal Vaccine Recommendations Are Categorized
HHS is asking a deceptively fundamental question: are the labels the federal government uses for vaccine recommendations still doing their job?
Briefing
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Friday, August 21
No fresh item cleared today’s full policy-significance, evidence, and action gate.
Briefing
CMS Proposes to Retire Some SDOH Questions and Refine Drug-Price Data Collections
Two unglamorous CMS forms are doing a surprising amount of policy work in a newly surfaced Federal Register notice.
Briefing
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Thursday, August 20
No fresh item cleared today’s changed-state, primary-source evidence, and Action Card gates; it is another genuinely slow federal health-policy morning.
Privacy and Security
CMS is building the privacy rails for its Nurses for Nursing Homes program
CMS is scheduled to publish a new Privacy Act system-of-records notice on August 20 for the Nurses for Nursing Homes Program, a workforce initiative tied…
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Wednesday, August 19
No fresh development cleared today’s changed-state, primary-source evidence, and Action Card gates; this is a genuinely slow federal health-policy morning.
Briefing
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Tuesday, August 18
No fresh item cleared today’s changed-state, primary-source evidence, and action-card gates; this is a quiet federal health-policy morning.
Interoperability
ONC moves to formalize how TEFCA hears from its exchange networks
TEFCA may be getting a more official listening post.
Privacy and Security
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Monday, August 17
HHS telegraphs HTI-6, but has not released a rule.
Interoperability
ONC seeks a new feedback loop for TEFCA’s growing exchange network
The federal health-information-exchange framework known as TEFCA may be getting a more formal listening post.
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Friday, August 14
An ONC-backed study gives physician-burden advocates a useful reality check on electronic prior authorization.