updated Fri. May 3, 2024
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The Hill
April 4, 2018
Last Tuesday, March 27, the comment period closed in response to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Proposed Rule: Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care; Delegations of Authority. This proposed rule dangerously expands the ability ofÃâà...
FedScoop
April 4, 2018
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) knows it can be hard for patients to get their full electronic health records, and it wants to help. So the office launched a new webpage Wednesday — a public-facing step-by-step guide to procuringÃâà...
Tech Times
April 3, 2018
Without warning and explanation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services removed crucial information about breast cancer from its website in December 2017. The reason? It wasn't used that much and wasn't mobile-friendly. ( Roberta Parkin | Getty Images ). President Donald Trump's HealthÃâà...
Enumclaw Courier-Herald
April 2, 2018
How do you effectively teach sex education and prevent teen pregnancy? King County says it has a pretty good idea, but it's suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to restore grant funding for its sex education and pregnancy prevention program, known as FLASH, in order to find out.
Louisville Business First
March 23, 2018
Kindred Healthcare Inc. filed suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, seeking millions in reimbursements. The Louisville-based post-acute- and home-health care provider filed suit against HHS on Wednesday. Kindred (NYSE: KND) argues that HHS Secretary Alex Azar IIÃâà...
Baltimore Business Journal
March 7, 2018
Baltimore City is filing suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over funding cuts to the city's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program. City Solicitor Andre M. Davis announced the filing Wednesday. The city health department said it was informed in July that grant funding supporting theÃâà...
PoliticsPA
March 6, 2018
State Rep. Matt Baker quietly left the state House to become the regional director of the Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services office in Philadelphia. According to City & State Baker was sworn into the position two weeks ago. “I was two daysÃâà...
Boston Business Journal
December 31, 1999
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is opening up the doors to startups who want to work with the federal government by launching a nationwide tour starting in Boston. “This is whole event series is to bring HHS to the people,” said Bruce Greenstein, chief technology officer for the U.S.Ãâà...