“The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill sent to President Joe Biden on Wednesday includes a number of provisions aimed at expanding health IT.”
“… Amidst lingering critiques over the government’s handling of COVID-19 patient information – particularly at the start of the pandemic – the American Rescue Plan sets aside $500 million for a data modernization and forecasting center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
“That money would go toward establishing, expanding and maintaining efforts to modernize the United States disease warning system to forecast and track hotspots for COVID-19, along with variants and emerging biological threats. Such a warning system revamp would include support for analytics and informatics infrastructure and data collection systems…”
“When it comes to COVID-19 vaccines specifically, the bill includes $7.5 billion for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.”
“HHS can also use some of its newly appropriated $47.8 billion to enhance IT, data modernization and reporting…” Read the full article here.
Source: COVID-19 relief package includes health IT expansion – By Kat Jercich, March 11, 2021. Healthcare IT News.
