Policy and Legislation

These differences could have public health ramifications, as even modest reductions in social contacts can reduce infection and eventual death rates.

Biden supports strengthening the ACA and public and private options in which public plans would compete with private plans.

This week's top stories include Under Armour throwing all its weight behind MapMyFitness, HHS unveiling its 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, and CMS approving a Georgia waiver to transition to a non-ACA private sector marketplace.

Governments must effectively leverage behavioral, economic and movement data to improve outcomes during future pandemics, says Dame Sally Davies, former CMO for England and current Master of Trinity College in Cambridge, UK.

This week's top stories include the FBI and HHS warning hospitals of malicious actors looking to infect health systems on a large scale, and provider groups pushing back against Trump's claims that doctors are inflating COVID-19 numbers.

As the percentage of patients residing in mask-requirement counties increases, the growth curve flattens.

Starting in 2023, the rule will require health plans to offer an online shopping tool to give out-of-pocket estimates for 500 of the most shoppable services.

With the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, they describe some of the techniques that may be used by foreign groups that could be targeting hundreds of health systems with ransomware.

The president’s comments at a recent rally are false and contribute to the spread of misinformation, they say.

Lessons learned from previous pandemics should have been implemented at the onset of the virus' spread, report says.