Government & Policy (135)

Stephan Krumm, senior policy advisor for the German Federal Ministry of Health, discusses the Digital Radar project, a collaboration with HIMSS for assessing German hospitals' digitization progress.

Melanie Fontes Rainer, director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights, explains how a new HIPAA privacy regulation will prevent misuse of patients' reproductive healthcare records and help restore trust to patient-provider relationships.

Andy Molnar, CEO of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, discusses what a digital therapeutic is exactly, why the organization held its recent summit in D.C. and how the company works with Congress on legislation around reimbursement.

Oscar Alleyne, MITRE's managing director of the public health division, discusses the value of public and private partnerships to advance public health innovations and what its FFRDCs do to help organizations plan for the next pandemic.

Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare's Dr. Tamara Sunbul discusses the challenges of drafting global policy with the United Nations Economic Commission for digital healthcare public-private partnerships that would help democratize access to care.

Sean Sullivan, a partner at Alston & Bird, says revised interoperability rules that may drop in June could shed light on reasonable fees and exceptions, details on sensitive information sharing and public health IT certification requirements.

Christina Caraballo, VP of informatics at HIMSS, describes the inclusion of maternal social determinants of health data in the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability as a crucial step towards reducing maternal mortality in underserved communities.

MA plans will need to measure performance ahead of 2027 when CMS will start rewarding plans that demonstrate progress in addressing health disparities, says Anna Basevich, SVP of Enterprise Partnerships and Customer Enablement at Arcadia.

The model allows for a gradual approach to risk for more conservative and less experienced ACOs, in comparison to ACO REACH, which requires a greater tolerance for risk but has more rewards, says David Morris, EVP at Cedar Gate Technologies.

Roselyn Tso, director of the Indian Health Service (IHS), discusses the agency's mission of advancing health equity for Native Americans and Alaska Natives and its progress in modernizing its health IT system.

Jessica Skopac, division chief engineer at MITRE, talks about her role as a "translator" helping policymakers and clinicians understand the company's technical products and bridging the communication gap between those groups and company engineers.

Dr. Cátia Sousa Pinto, head of global digital health and international affairs at the Shared Services of the Ministry of Health of Portugal, discusses the country's phone line and mobile app offering free 24/7 nurse advice.