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ONC lays groundwork for ‘EHR of the future’

Building on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s idea to incorporate data from beyond healthcare, the ONC is hoping to lay the groundwork for an “EHR of the future” that includes a wide swath of data that it said could more accurately capture a person’s overall health. In a lengthy report released this week, in conjunction […]

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HHS downsizes projections for federal health exchange this year

Officials at the U.S. Health and Human Services Department are predicting a significant reduction in the amount of new enrollees through the federal health exchange, Healthcare.gov, from 13 million predicted by the Congressional Budget Office down to between 9 and 9.9 million. According to a memo released yesterday by HHS, the possible drop in new […]