News: CBO Details Public Health Option Savings
FALLS CHURCH – Top headlines from Noblis Health Innovation for Friday, July 23, compiled daily by Noblis Health Innovation. Click on the underlined item for the actual story:
- HHS panel grapples with patient consent: An HHS advisory committee has approved several models for strengthening the privacy and security of health information exchange that will allow patients to either opt-in or opt-out of taking part in the exchange of the data.
- HHS employees, industry partners jump-start innovations: Health and Human Service department’s CTO Todd shares his vision for revolutionizing health information exchange with Federal Computer Week’s Alice Lipowicz.
- CBO: Public health option would save $68 billion through 2020: Julian Pecquet of The Hill reports that creating a public option that all Americans could choose would save $68 billion through 2020, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.
- Wait times at emergency departments continue to increase nationwide: Nationwide, patients today are cooped up in EDs for longer periods of time than ever before, according to healthcare consulting company Press Ganey’s latest Emergency Department Pulse Report.
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