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The proposal would keep hospitals and clinics private, allow physicians to bill under a fee-for-service model, and be funded by rolling combining current sources of government health spending into a single fund with modest new taxes. 

The platform, developed by Yale School of Medicine researchers and Yale New Haven Health System, is designed to enable patients to both access their records and participate in studies.

As the country celebrates National Women’s Heath Week this week, women at the University of California, San Francisco’s National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, have double cause to celebrate. It was 20 years ago the center was founded. The founding director, Nancy Milliken, continues to lead the enterprise today. “Women were vulnerable to harm from undertreatment, overtreatment and mistreatment due to the lack of rigorous research on women's unique experience of health and disease,” Milliken said in the May 8 UCSF article. Before launching the center, Milliken was a professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF. UCSF was designated in 1996 as one of the nation's first six National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health, sponsored by the Office on Women's Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The quest has always been for health equity. “My dream would be that the need for UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health would be eliminated because sex and gender approaches to research, clinical care, education are in the DNA of UCSF, and inform health care and policy across our nation and the world,” Milliken said in the UCSF article. The other five National Centers of Excellence in Women’s Health designated by HHS in 1996 are located at: – Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Philadelphia – Magee-Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh – Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia – Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Read the article here. Twitter: @Bernie_HITN Email the writer: bernie.monegain@himssmedia.com  

Two new funding initiatives, dubbed High Impact Pilots Standards Exploration Award, will focus on improving care delivery and data sharing.  

Geisinger, University of Utah Health and other leading health systems to test winning designs in the contest called A Bill You Can Understand, sponsored by AARP.

Former Walnut Hill Medical Center CIO will also serve as VP of government relations for the security vendor.

The Health and Human Services chief said that HHS is working to eliminate data blocking, enable interoperability, and protect patient data as it moves around the healthcare system. 

The Office for Civil Rights said that many HIPAA-covered entities do not believe business associates will notify them in the event of a data breach but since providers are on the hook anyway they must be ready should that happen. 

The next big step in population health is greatly expanding what defines a population. And that process will require a new generation of technologies, according to Adrian Zai of Massachusetts General.

This Mother’s Day, Janet Schijns, vice president, global channels, at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, pays homage to her trailblazing mother, who continues to inspire her today. “I’ve noticed that over the past few years that fewer and fewer women are staying in tech long enough to mentor others or trail blaze for the next generation,” writes Schijns in a May 4 LinkedIN post. “Instead of lamenting, I’ve taken action,” she writes in "The Critical Role That Mothers Play." Read Janet’s column here.