Maverick's Update

“It’s just another Thursday.” That’s one of several witty remarks in the new movie The Gray Man, which means “this might be challenging for a regular person, but for our hero, it is just a typical day.” Our hero, in this case, is a CIA operative played by Ryan Gosling, who manages to uncover dark agency secrets, which triggers a psychopathic former CIA agent played by Chris Evans (who sports a terrible mustache in an attempt to shake the whole Captain America thing) to try to kill our hero to recover the secrets. In the One Thoughtful Paragraph below, we explain how it is not just another Thursday in the world of digital health policy.

Other news that happened around Thursday of this week:

• The Purchaser Business Group on Health and Integrated Healthcare Association are leading a value-based care model with a small group of participants, including Aetna, Aledade, Oscar, and UnitedHealthcare. The companies signed a memorandum of understanding, agreeing to prioritize advanced primary care by expanding data collection and exchange to support value-based payments.

• The ONC announced a new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Trust Fund project titled “Using Machine Learning Techniques to Enable Health Information Exchange to Support COVID-19 Focused PCOR.” The project will initially incorporate split learning, a privacy-preserving machine learning technique to test the possibility of incorporating HIE data for research at the individual and widespread HIE level.

• The NIH All of Us research program issued a Request for Information on integrating EHR data from health information networks and exchanges into its currently existing data set.

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