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CMS is currently working on an innovative approach to health care spending, called the accountable care initiative. The idea is to coordinate care within accountable care organizations in order to provide better patient outcomes and quicker recovery times, while reducing the number of admissions and re-admissions.
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What constitutes health care innovations besides or within new drugs, new techniques and new methods of payments?
The Department of Health and Human Services stood up its Idea Lab in 2013 to establish and build on a culture of innovation within the department.
When the National Institutes of Health comes across an idea that seems too big, or too risky, for traditional modes of scientific investigation, the agency turns to its Common Fund program.
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2024 CX Exchange: SSA’s Martin O’Malley on creating better experiences for the masses
The Social Security commissioner says reducing phone wait times is among his top three priorities to improve how SSA serves citizens.
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The agency imperative to manage real estate more effectively
The extensive underutilization of federally occupied space highlighted in recent reports from GAO and the Public Buildings Reform Board.
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Army commanders fail to adequately address all forms of harassment, DoD IG says
The review also uncovers a leadership failure to do historical comparisons to identify year-to-year trends in harassment.
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Agencies’ headquarters in DC remained ‘nearly empty’ in 2023, real-estate board finds
The Public Buildings Reform Board finds agency headquarters buildings operated at 12% of their estimated capacity, on average, from January-September 2023.
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New law requires telework option for pregnant workers
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act requires agencies to provide reasonable accommodations, from longer breaks to telework.
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Biden Administration tweaks regulations for how states, cities can use federal funding
A recent update by the Office of Management and Budget aims to give state, local, and tribal governments more autonomy on how they spend federal grant money.
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New DCSA director sees a data-driven future for security clearances and more
David Cattler, a longtime intelligence official, sees a range of both near- and long-term priorities in his new role as director at DCSA.
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Facing billions in facility backlogs, DoD looks to new pilot for ‘livable communities’
Defense officials want to demonstrate a new demolition and consolidation concept at five bases over the next three years.
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