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## [Care Management Weekly News Update 9/28/22](https://www.avicenna-medical.com/blog/care-management-weekly-news-update-9-28-22)

Posted by [DeAnn Dennis](https://www.avicenna-medical.com/blog/author/deann-dennis) on Wed, Sep 28, 2022 @ 11:45 AM

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# [Short-Term Spending Bill Includes Rural Hospital Program Extensions, Nixes COVID-19 and Monkeypox Aid](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/short-term-spending-bill-includes-rural-hospital-program-extensions-nixes-covid-19-and)

A short-term spending package includes extensions for two key rural hospital programs into December but doesn’t include the Biden administration’s request for $27 billion in aid for COVID-19 and the monkeypox outbreak. 

# [How Data Drives Value-Based Care and Population Health](https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/payment-delivery-models/how-data-drives-value-based-care-and-population-health)

Philip M. Oravetz, MD, MPH, chief population health officer at [Ochsner Health](https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/ochsner-health-system-spotlight), in Louisiana, has some crucial advice for other health systems mulling value-based contracts. Before signing, get a commitment from your payers to provide claims data.

# [HHS Expands Ownership Data Set for 15,000 Medicare-Certified Nursing Homes](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/hhs-publishes-ownership-data-15000-medicare-certified-nursing-homes)

The Biden administration’s promise to bring more scrutiny on the nursing home industry took another step forward Monday with the release of a new database of facility ownership, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced.  

# [Oracle's Plans to 'rewrite' VA's Cerner EHR System to Fix Outages](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/oracle-plans-rewrite-vas-cerner-ehr-system-fix-outages-amid-increased-scrutiny-congress)

Tech giant Oracle promised lawmakers this week that it would revamp the beleaguered Cerner computer system being deployed at Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals.

# [Fitbit, Google Cloud unveil wearable data analytics service for healthcare](https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/fitbit-google-cloud-unveil-wearable-data-analytics-service-healthcare)

On Tuesday, Fitbit Health Solutions and Google Cloud announced they're launching a new service to help healthcare and life science organizations utilize data from wearables.  [Device Connect for Fitbit](https://cloud.google.com/device-connect) allows patients to make their Fitbit data available to providers, giving these patients control over who they share their information with and for what purpose.

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