On February 11th, blockchain advocates, digital health enthusiasts, and patients received positive news from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”) regarding patient data sharing. These rules, taken together, seek to make data more liquid, which can promote patient access, continuity of care, research, collaboration across the industry and several other activities that previously faced challenges within a health care system built on data silos.
First, CMS ...
Last week, the 2014 340B Coalition Winter Conference was held in San Diego, California (the "Winter Conference"), where representatives from the Health Resources and Services Administration ("HRSA") of the United States Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), the Office of Inspector General ("OIG") of HHS, and industry stakeholders (including Epstein Becker Green) presented on current developments with the 340B drug discount program (the "340B Program"). A brief summary of the 340B Program, including contract pharmacy arrangements, can be found ...
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