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Webinar Alert – Digital Health & Interoperability Policy: New Ideas to Drive Federal Government Efficiency

April 24, 202512pm ET Building on previous successes across multiple administrations, we have an opportunity to continue to advance patient data exchange by taking an innovative approach to federal health care technology policy. How can we more effectively advance Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Application Programming Interface (FHIR API)-based data exchange between payers, providers, patients, and … Continue reading

Webinar Replay: Non-Clinical Tools in Drug Development

This webinar was held on March 26, 2025. Leavitt Partners, an HMA Company, invites you to watch, Non-Clinical Tools in Drug Development: Current Challenges and the Path Forward. This program brought together regulators, industry, innovators, associations, and non-profits to discuss the issues limiting the development and utilization of nonclinical tools in medicines development. Speakers represented regulated … Continue reading

Josh Trent named CEO of Leavitt Partners

We are pleased to announce that Josh Trent has been named chief executive officer (CEO) of Leavitt Partners, an HMA Company. He succeeds Vince Ventimiglia who founded and successfully led Leavitt Partner’s Washington, D.C., office for more than a decade. Vince continues his service at Leavitt Partners in the role of senior advisor where he … Continue reading

Health Policy and Digital Innovation Leader Joins Leavitt Partners

Leavitt Partners, an HMA Company, is pleased to welcome Kim Boyd to the company’s team of digital health experts. She will serve as a principal with the Washington, DC office, and as a resident of Nashville, Tennessee will have close ties with HMA’s Nashville office. Kim has extensive experience in health IT, having served as … Continue reading

Webinar Replay – Legislative Reconciliation in a New Era: Understanding Its Role and Impact in the 119th Congress

This webinar was held on January 15, 2025.  As the Trump Administration takes office and a new Congress is convened, the legislative tool of budget reconciliation could play a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s policy landscape. In this webinar, Liz Wroe, Sara Singleton, and Laura Pence discussed the potential health policy priorities of the new Administration, the implications … Continue reading

Digital Mental Health Technologies: Gaps and Opportunities in Current U.S. Regulatory Authorities

The use of digital mental health technology (DMHT) has rapidly increased in recent years. While DMHT has the potential to improve access to mental health and substance use disorder care, as well as address workforce challenges, payers, providers, and consumers lack information on effectiveness, quality, and privacy protections of specific DMHT.   With support from … Continue reading

Coding, Coverage, and Payment to Improve Inclusive Health

Individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD) face unique challenges in equitable access to high-quality health care and experience poorer health outcomes. These challenges are compounded by difficulties that clinicians face in providing care to this population, with barriers impacting clinician-to-patient time, time to prepare for visits, coverage and payment for services, infrastructure and accommodation … Continue reading

Playbook for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Referral Management and Data Exchange

Increasingly, attention and resources are being focused on addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) as awareness grows that SDOH, or the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, are a primary driver of health outcomes. However, collection and exchange of SDOH data is lagging, hampering efforts to address SDOH. Leavitt Partners … Continue reading

A Vision for Incrementally Improving Health Care Data Quality

Background and Problem Statement As a consequence of recent progress in interoperability and healthcare data exchange, the data quality problem is no longer isolated to local organizations and businesses; it is systemic and more evident than ever. It negatively affects patient care, patient safety, public health, clinical research, insurance claims processing, and the administrative cost … Continue reading