{"id":19210,"date":"2019-06-03T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/?p=19210"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:04:59","slug":"health-data-news-roundup-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/health-data-news-roundup-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Data News Roundup: Senate Bill About Health Information Exchange; Sequoia Project and ONC Proposed Interoperability Rule; and BCBS and Wearables"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Round Up from IMAT Solutions. As the power of data continues to grow in the healthcare arena, today\u2019s care organizations need to be on the forefront of all news and trends to help ensure that their data analytics efforts deliver accountable and informed care. Each week, we will provide you with the actionable news you need to meet these goals.
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Senate Draft Bill Promotes Exchange of Health Information<\/a><\/strong>
\nDraft legislation released by the Senate health committee for public comment would not only reduce healthcare costs but is also meant to improve patient access to data, according to this recent Health Data Management <\/em>article.<\/a><\/p>\n

Breaking Down the Senate Draft Bill on Patient Healthcare Costs<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee recently released<\/a> a discussion draft on legislation that would address healthcare costs, patient financial responsibility, surprise medical bills, and public health.<\/p>\n

Sequoia Project Seeks Clarity in ONC Proposed Interoperability Rule<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Sequoia Project generally commended<\/a> ONC\u2019s proposed rule related to interoperability, information blocking, but requested federal regulators more clearly define terms such as \u201caccess,\u201d \u201cexchange,\u201d \u201cuse,\u201d and \u201celectronic health information\u201d (EHI) in the finalized rule.<\/p>\n

EHRA: ONC Interoperability Proposed Rule Discourages Innovation<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe EHR Association (EHRA) expressed concern<\/a> that ONC\u2019s proposed rule on interoperability and information blocking may have too broad a reach and extend beyond Congressional intent in a summary of its drafted comments.<\/p>\n

Most Medicare Dual-Eligibles See Social Determinants of Health<\/a><\/strong>
\nOver half of dual-eligible Medicare Advantage beneficiaries experience the social determinants of health, revealing a need for better social health programming within the program, according<\/a> to data presented by Avalere at ISPOR 2019.<\/p>\n

Prescription Drug Spending Varies by Private, Public Payers<\/a><\/strong>
\nMedicare, Medicaid, and private payers covered 82 percent of prescription drug spending in 2017, according<\/a> to a study from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).<\/p>\n

BCBS Adds mHealth Wearables to Wellness Program With Garmin Partnership<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is adding a new mHealth platform<\/a> to its health and wellness program, giving health plans and members an opportunity to track health and fitness data through wearables.<\/p>\n

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Round Up from IMAT Solutions. As the power of data continues to grow in the healthcare arena, today\u2019s care organizations need to be on the forefront of all news and trends to help ensure that their data analytics efforts deliver accountable and informed care. Each week, we will provide you with the actionable news you need to meet these goals. Senate Draft Bill Promotes Exchange of Health Information…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[265],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82786,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19210\/revisions\/82786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}