Digital Service created during the Obama administration after turning around healthcare.gov). Expect a lot of the OAI’s firepower to be directed at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which, like many other federal agencies, is struggling with decades-old IT infrastructure: The VA and ...
healthcare system. Independent security experts say it has already hobbled at least four U.S. hospitals this month, and could potentially impact hundreds more. In a joint alert Wednesday, the FBI and two federal agencies warned that they had “credible information of an increased and imminent ...
Mir , 2013 , Government and state agencies: who administrates health care on federal and state levels? in: M. K. Sethi and W. H. Fris , eds., An Introduction to Health Policy: A Primer for Physicians and Medical Students . (Springer, New York, NY ) 209 – 220 ....
Then we have non-governmental agencies that include the Joint Commission (TJC), in which accreditation is given for meeting high-quality standards, and the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which provides guidance on health, medicine, and biomedical science. Then we have the Department of Health and...
Medicare Interim Payment System's Impact on Medicare Home Health Utilization The Medicare home health interim payment system (IPS) implemented in fiscal year 1998 provided very strong incentives for home health agencies (HHAs) to re... K Liu,SK Long,K Dowling - 《Health Care Financing Review》...
make the data available to users, such as people enrolled in health plans operated or supervised by the federal government.Although the president's order called for improvement of the quality and efficiency of health care, it said federal agencies should not incur additional costs for the ...
For those planning, building and maintaining network infrastructure in healthcare, it’s hard to see any immediate impact of the framework beyond reinforcing the growing importance of data in the healthcare industry. Whether for secure sharing of data for clinical decision support (CDS), or the ...
President George Bush has signed an executive order requiring four federal agencies to collect and share data on healthcare quality and costs and make the data available to users, such as people enrolled in health plans operated or supervised by the federal government.Although the president's ...
Improving health care delivery, research and administrations for the nation's federal health agencies We are leveraging over 20 years of domain expertise and world-class technical proficiency to deliver mission-critical capabilities to the nation's federal healthcare community, including the Center for ...
Reports on Agency for Health Care Policy and Research's examination of its method of writing and distributing clinical practice guidelines. Public Health Service; Number of guidelines issued by the agency for over two years; Comments of administrator Clifton Gaus; Purpose of the guidelines; Cost of...