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So, if you want me to spin this as a positive success, I don't think it's a big mystery at this point how to avoid more casualties, more losses, more suffering. And I would venture to say that as a global community we understand how to do that. Our ability to avoid infecting one another and getting infected ourselves is our only medicine. Generally speaking, we have we still have holes in our knowledge around what makes people susceptible, how immunity works, and we're completely flummoxed with what this thing does once it gets inside the human body, but that's a fair amount of progress because it helps us understand that, look, as citizens of the world, without a vaccine, we and how we relate to one another in our communication is our medicine. I mean we are a lot smarter than we were nine months ago. > Andy Slavitt: You know, I think in some respects we're doing pretty well at the hard sciences- what I would call the hard sciences- vaccine research, the kind of continual learning process that your publication and others continues to roll. I think the entire- in some respects, confidence in government to implement big programs was in the balance, and, you know, politically, I think President Obama needed it to work for presidency, but, you know, at the end of the day, just say that you learn a lot about fighting crisis and about how all of these pieces work and come together and can come together. I think we have a lot at stake, you know, millions of people who had never had insurance for the first time were kind of hanging in the balance. But it was an incredibly stressful and exhilarating and important period. I think I was the only one that made the phone call and two days after they announced in a public that I would leading that effort to be the chief firefighter and then they ended it by saying and it will be fixed within five weeks, which was news- which was news to me. It turns out that I probably got tagged to do this by process of elimination. Of course, I assumed that hundreds of people were making that same phone call. I actually called Washington after the website crashed and just offered to help and said, hey, if you need some help, I'm glad to come lend a hand. Look, I, you know, it's funny how that happened. However, Slavitt did say “steps” to reform issues would be undertaken and CMS would do it directly.> Andy Slavitt: I was fortunate enough to be involved, but it took every one of us. He did not state what the specific remedies or repercussions would be - whether they’d come through policy changes or other forms of regulation. “Data blocking will not be tolerated,” Slavitt said, adding that a new email address has been created so incidents of health data obstruction can be reported to the CMS and investigations can be carried out. His announcement also was coupled with a word of warning to health-care vendors and other stakeholders who might halt the flow of data, private or open, for financial reasons - as in the case to collect hidden fees or to keep customers.
“As a nation we’re beginning to move past the question of what to do and onto the punch list to get it done,” Slavitt said. All accomplished with data as a mainstay. On the policy side, he added that CMS hospitals have saved an estimated $3.2 billion per year by simplifying regulations and cutting redundant requirements. He credited the organization’s adherence to data - and open data innovation - as a driving force to statistical gains in national health-care quality and cost-effectiveness.Īccording to Slavitt, incidents of patient harm in hospitals has dropped nationally by 17 percent in the last year, and health-care cost growth is at its lowest rate in 50 years - growing even slower than per capita GDP for the last four. Despite these necessary restrictions, Slavitt said the data push was something to be celebrated and a milestone that's been years in the making.
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