Archives: Faith Ryan
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HHS Modernizes Website Homepage, Highlights Pandemic Efforts
The agency is putting public health announcements, guidelines and facts on COVID-19 front and center.
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COVID-19 Exposes Need for Health Care Interoperability
The pandemic sheds light on what health agencies have been developing to enable faster health-data exchanges for patients and providers.
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Officials: HHS Cyber Attack Shows Importance of Cybersecurity Amid Pandemic Response
While the attack was reportedly unsuccessful, federal cybersecurity leads encourage agencies to 'remain vigilant'.
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Digital Leaders Offer Tips to Ease Mass Migration to Telework
Organizations are transitioning to remote work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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HHS Releases Final Rules for EHR Interoperability, Information Blocking
The rules require patient health information sharing among providers for improved patient care.
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What USDS is Doing to Support Patient, Provider Access to Medicare Claims Data
The goal is to provide better access to claims data for improved health care outcomes.
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How HHS is Transforming Grants Management
The agency is implementing blockchain along with other tech to modernize the current system.
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HHS Suggests Solutions for IT Burdens in Health Care Advances
The agency released a final strategic report suggesting ways to relieve provider EHR burdens and improve care.
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FDA Aims to Accelerate Data Modernization Through TMAP
The Food and Drug Administration is looking to modernize its internal technology infrastructure and the ways it uses data in regulatory processes through its Technology Modernization Action Plan (TMAP).
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USDS Experts: Design With, Not For, Users
The government needs to provide products and digital services that allow users to easily accomplish what they need to do, according to experts from the U.S. Digital Services discussing tech development challenges and ways to mitigate issues before they arise using human-centered design.
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Leaders Detail How Health Policy is 'Driven by Anecdotes'
Government officials are emphasizing the importance of electronic patient access to their health care records and of moving interoperability standards forward through personal anecdotes of their own mishaps with current health care practices.
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Partnerships in Focus for Cybersecurity Efforts at Health Agencies
As the federal government navigates an evolving cyber-threat landscape, health agency officials are increasing their attention toward expanding workforce recruitment, training and retention efforts to better safeguard personal health information.
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