Government & Policy

Nurses using a desktop computer in their station
By Adam Ang 11:29 pm February 13, 2025
Public Service Association has asked the Privacy Commissioner and Employment Relations Authority to keep Te Whatu Ora from dismissing roles in data and digital.
Portrait of Margie Apa, first chief executive of Te Whatu Ora
By Adam Ang 01:59 am February 10, 2025
Planning and funding director Dr Dale Bramley will be interim chief executive.
Woman holds a plastic delivery of prescription produce for an older man
By Andrea Fox 10:46 am February 07, 2025
Tufts University, Kaiser Permanente and other healthcare organizations have launched the National Food is Medicine Network of Excellence to share best practices and measure the health outcomes and costs of produce prescription programs.
An emergency team pushing a patient on a gurney
By Adam Ang 10:49 pm February 06, 2025
Also, a free virtual women's health clinic is being set up in Victoria.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
By Mike Miliard 11:14 am February 04, 2025
"Health IT has always been a nonpartisan area for policymakers, so I expect that will largely remain the case," says longtime policy expert Leigh Burchell.
A doctor reviewing a paper patient record
By Adam Ang 06:29 am February 03, 2025
It recently launched the Indian Genomic Dataset, which currently has 10,000 sequenced genomes from the local population.
RFK Jr. testifies Thursday before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
By Susan Morse 10:43 am January 31, 2025
HHS nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says show me the data; senators say it's already there.
HHS building and signage
By Andrea Fox 04:11 pm January 24, 2025
While the president's pick for Health and Human Services Secretary awaits his nomination hearing, acting director Dr. Dorothy Fink issued a "pause on issuing documents and public communications," including social media, to all department heads.
Stethoscope resting on tablet
By Andrea Fox 09:27 am January 24, 2025
Inequities that already exist in the healthcare system, and may be amplified by LLMs, could be addressed through the proving ground of artificial intelligence assurance labs, according to Brigham Hyde, CEO of Atropos Health.
Trump being sworn in as president
By Susan Morse 11:29 am January 23, 2025
"Health systems have reason to worry," says consultant Michael Abrams of Numerof.