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Healthcare Policy Developments to Watch in 2024

WebIn February 2024, Senator Cassidy released a report to propose policy recommendations to revise the HIPAA framework and ensure privacy protections for health data. In the report, Senator Cassidy highlights recent health data breaches and outlines several proposals to modernize the HIPAA framework and other privacy regulations.

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An Overview of the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity …

WebTroy Barsky is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office, and serves as a member of the firm’s Health Care Group Steering Committee where he focuses on health care fraud and abuse, and Medicare and Medicaid law and policy.Troy counsels all types of health care entities, including hospitals, group practices, and health plans on …

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Trends in Transformation Crowell Health Solutions

WebThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a draft of their 2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (Draft Strategic Plan) on March 27, 2024, updating the 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan.In collaboration with 25 other federal organizations, the purpose of this strategic Plan is to create overall …

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How President Biden’s Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and …

WebLidia Niecko-Najjum is a counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Health Care Group and is part of the firm’s Digital Health Practice.With over 15 years of clinical, policy, and legal experience, Lidia provides strategic advice on health care regulatory and policy matters, with particular focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital …

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FDA Releases Guidance on Digital Health Technologies for Clinical

WebOn December 22, 2023, FDA issued final guidance–Digital Health Technologies for Remote Data Acquisition in Clinical Investigations.This final guidance is aimed at sponsors and others who may be involved in remote data acquisition for …

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An Overview of the ACO Primary Care Flex (ACO PC Flex) Model

WebStephen Bentfield is a partner and a member of the firm’s Health Care Group. Stephen counsels health care organizations on a wide range of health care regulatory and transactional matters.His regulatory experience includes helping clients with issues such as fraud and abuse enforcement risk analysis and mitigation, organizational compliance …

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CMS releases updates to the ACO REACH model to advance …

WebThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published new changes to the ACO REACH model to increase predictability for participating ACOs, protect against inappropriate risk score growth, and to advance health equity starting in performance year 2024 (PY2024). The ACO REACH model was created to deliver high …

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Medicaid Redetermination Flexibilities and Data Sharing Under …

WebOn June 12, 2023, HHS Secretary Becerra released a letter announcing new Medicaid redetermination flexibilities to further avoid tremendous coverage loss. These flexibilities include: (1) allowing managed care plans to assist Medicaid beneficiaries to complete their renewal form including completing certain parts of the form on their behalf; …

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FDA Releases Predetermined Change Control Plans for Machine …

WebOn October 24, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), Health Canada, and the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (“MHRA”) jointly released a publication identifying five guiding principles for predetermined change control plans (“PCCP”) for machine learning-enabled medical devices (“MLMD …

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Crowell Health Solutions Examines the Adoption of Decentralized

WebOn November 28, Crowell Health Solutions published a white paper outlining several policy recommendations to advance widespread adoption of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). The white paper titled, “Advancing Adoption of Decentralized Clinical Trials: Rationale, Current State, and Policy Recommendations” examines the current …

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WHO Announces Global Initiative Focused on Digital Health

WebOn August 19, 2023, the World Health Organization (“WHO”) announced a new initiative to operationalize the implementation of the Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020-2025 and to further enable digital health system transformation. The Global Initiative on Digital Health (“GIDH”) is a WHO managed network of stakeholders organized to

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AI in Health Care: AI Bill of Rights, Future Regulations, and What

WebRoma Sharma is an associate in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of the firm’s Health Care Group. Roma primarily works with health care clients seeking to comply with regulations for state and federal health care programs, health care anti-fraud and abuse laws, and licensing laws.

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