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The Department of Health and Human Services invites stakeholder teams, including health care providers, to submit innovative proposals through Sept. 8 for an online platform to connect older adults, veterans, disabled people and other vulnerable populations to technologies and social engagement鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has created an Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics to build on its Patients over Paperwork initiative across Medicare, Medicaid, the Children鈥檚 Health Insurance Program and Health Insurance Marketplace and use health data to foster鈥
A National Quality Forum task force released a report identifying opportunities to advance safe, appropriate, person-centered care over the next decade.
The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response June 26 at 1 p.m. ET will host the next webinar in its series 鈥漇ecuring the Health Sector,鈥 which will focus on 鈥淐OVID-19 and the Use of Thermal Detection Cameras in the Healthcare鈥
The Food and Drug Administration has partnered with the Critical Path Institute and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to launch the CURE Drug Repurposing Collaboratory, a forum for exchanging clinical practice data to inform potential new uses for existing drugs to treat unmet鈥
The AHA urged Congress to revise the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 in the next COVID-19 relief package to reflect new insights from the COVID-19 pandemic and the effect of recent post-acute care payment system reforms.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., dismissed the AHA鈥檚 legal challenge to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 final rule mandating that hospitals disclose their privately negotiated charges with commercial health insurers. AHA plans to appeal on an expedited basis.
The Department of Health and Human Services said its Office of Minority Health will partner with the Morehouse School of Medicine to deliver education and resources on the COVID-19 pandemic鈥檚 impact on racial- and ethnic-minority, rural and socially vulnerable communities.
Hospitalization rates for COVID-19 were nearly four times higher for black, and two times higher for Hispanic, Medicare beneficiaries than for white Medicare beneficiaries, according to data on COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on the administration鈥檚 response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which featured officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Food and Drug Administration, and Centers for Disease鈥