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In November 1991, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) was established in response to the challenge from the Bush administration, specifically, Louis Sullivan MD, Secretary of HHS, to reduce administrative costs in the nation's health care system by up to 10%.
The challenge grants sought to develop innovative and scalable solutions in five key areas: 1) achieving health goals through health information exchange, 2) improving long-term and post-acute care transitions, 3) consumer-mediated information exchange, 4) enabling enhanced query for patient care, and 5) fostering distributed population-level ...
Washington, DC: eHealth Initiative. OCLC 61482941. Hagland, Mark (2009). Transformative Quality: The Emerging Revolution in Health Care Performance. New York: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-8492-4. OCLC 502919031.
In 1998, President Bill Clinton signed legislation renaming the National Courts Building after Howard Thomas Markey. [5] The re-dedication celebration was held on October 23, 1998, during a special joint session of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Court of Federal Claims.
[1] [2] The NHCX aims to standardize and simplify the exchange of health claims, making it easier for insurance companies, government schemes, and healthcare providers like hospitals and labs to share data, documents, and images. This system will also make claims processing more transparent and efficient, lowering operational costs. [3] [4]
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. [1] Its mission is to "make pivotal investments in break-through technologies and broadly applicable platforms, capabilities, resources, and solutions that have the potential to transform important areas of medicine and health for the benefit of all patients and that ...
The U.S. health care insurance system relies on private insurance, which covers 200 million Americans, and government-run programs. Americans receive coverage through their employers, government ...
Since then, HEW, has been reorganized as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 1980. This consequently brought Medicare and Medicaid under the jurisdiction of the HHS. [8] In March 1977, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) was established under HEW. [9] HCFA became responsible for the coordination of Medicare and ...