Regulation

Leah Binder, president and CEO at the Leapfrog Group, discusses the finalized Patient Safety Structural Measure, which will be implemented in the government's fiscal year 2025, and how it hard-wires patient safety as a top priority in hospitals.

Healthcare attorney and partner at Holland & Knight Zubin Khambatta discusses the CMS final rule related to Medicaid managed care and its provisions adding new compliance guardrails regarding state-directed payments.  

Gaurav Sharma, market innovator and global client partner at Cognizant, discusses the balance between accelerating healthcare's use of technology with putting regulations in place to protect patients.  

The ONC's new rules could include advancements around public health IT certification requirements, electronic prior authorization, patient engagement tools and refinement to info blocking rules, says Sean Sullivan, a partner at Alston & Bird.  

Carolyn Metnick, partner and Healthcare and Privacy & Cybersecurity team member at Sheppard Mullin, recommends that healthcare organizations follow basics such as following HIPAA security rule compliance and doing a security risk analysis.  

Patricia MacTaggart, program director and teaching instructor at George Washington University and 2024 Changemaker Award winner, discusses how Medicaid’s innovative use of telehealth as a care modality influenced Medicare and other payers.  

Ernie Crawford, CEO at Crawford Technologies, discusses how the 2024 CMS Final Rule pertaining to materials and content is bringing health equity to payer market communications.  

1upHealth CEO Joe Gagnon talks about how healthcare organizations can use data to meet the needs of new CMS prior authorization rules.  

Tom Leary, SVP and head of government relations at HIMSS, discusses anticipated U.S. health IT advancements, including EHR modernization for the VA and the Indian Health Service, as well as ARPA-H's $2.5 billion healthcare technology initiative.

J29's Tracy Mills and Nick Vass discuss providing clinical and data analysis support, and bridging gaps between the public and private health sectors.