Eric Guroff

This week trump canceled billions of dollars of COVID-19 funds sent via CDC to health departments, stating, “the COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic…” Funds were not being wasted. That is a lie.

#factcheckfriday

it is very reasonable to have a no-recording policy. Clinic leadership should just tell frontline staff to say that. Blaming hipaa is trying to blame a law for a corporate policy, and my OP is coming from frustration over so much misinformation about hipaa

Doctors office tells my mom that it’s a violation of hipaa for her to record her appointment.

NO ITS NOT, STOP MAKING UP BS “HIPAA” RULES

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

LLM: well, fine! just tell your database to accept FLEXTYPE it’s stupid if it doesn’t

Who could this debate possibly be between? 😆

If your data*

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Probably not the right audience, but settle a debate:

Do primary keys and foreign keys exist in a *database* or in *data*?

If your comes in with ID references, but you don’t configure them as PKs and FKs in your database, can you still call them PKs and FKs?

There’s a joke somewhere in the use of “sub” and “prime” in both mortgage crises and government contractors

I always wondered what the .1% not included in the “kills 99.9% of germs” claim on hand sanitizer. The more you know!

Um, Congress, you might want to take a look at this What might DOGE have brewing?

Most interesting DOGE take I’ve seen yet: www.eatingpolicy.com/p/um-congres...

From @pahlkadot.bsky.social

Request for Information: Administration for Children and Families Development of Interoperability Standards for Human Service Programs The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), invites public comments to inform the use or adoption of interoperability standards for h...

Opportunity for interop folks: ACF is seeking public comment on interoperability standards for human services: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Do we think the theory with splitting up HTI-2 is that it’s less likely a new admin would undo all of them, vs a blanket roll back of just 1? Or is it just logistically easier on a tight deadline to ship incrementally?

That description looks like the proposed rule stage though, right? So maybe still referencing all the stuff that is now on the cutting room floor?

Shoulda been there 🤦🏻‍♂️

Got it, makes sense!

So no second final rule with the other stuff? Confused about the OMB link from the top of this thread then

It seems like it, bc the HTI-2 final rule was re-subtitled to just TEFCA: www.healthit.gov/topic/laws-r...

But I’m confused that I don’t see anything about this second final rule on healthit.gov

@healthapiguy.bsky.social - any idea what’s going on here?

Yeah, I do see this cited as a reason not to share (unfortunately).

How are they talking about segmenting part 2 data for facilities that have both part 2 and non part 2 data? It’s a burden on under-funded BH and SUD providers to segment - is anyone working on an open standard, clinically validated algorithm to tag part 2 data flowing to HIEs?

Okay, the timing of this is just too on point

Does this ever get so good that APIs and standards become moot?

Can’t remember where I heard this quote, but it keeps coming to mind:

It’s better to have the problems of connection than isolation

Thanks! Any signal from new admin on what they will do with this? Or are we just guessing from general regulatory signaling that they will repeal (is that the right term) via EO if finalized before inauguration? So curious if any of this (esp the public health portion) is likely to stick around

U.S. Proposes Breakup of Google to Fix Search Monopoly In a landmark antitrust case, the government asked a judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser.

Surprised to see a forced divesture in Anthropic as part of this - I feel like Google’s AI investments (both internal and in outside companies) actually increases the competition in the AI market (unlike Search and Online Advertising), given OpenAI/Microsoft’s lead www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/t...

Oof, I’m really glad I’m not working for a digital front door company selling to enterprise health systems anymore.

Nooooo CDC spells HIPAA wrong on their official government website 😭

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Do the courts say anything about latency as it pertains to info blocking? (Not sure Athena’s implementation, but assuredly many implementations of an analytical database would have quite a lag from the production database)