Center for Connected Health Policy

CENTER FOR CONNECTED HEALTH POL I CY (CCHP) summarizing, and relaying in an efficient and easy to understand manner all of the changing policies for 52 jurisdictions (federal, 50 states and the District of Columbia) that were happening simultaneously and continuously in an almost real-time fashion with a staff of only three people. What many are not aware of is how few staff members CCHP has and yet, we are able to generate analyses of complex policy in accessible resources for a diverse audience covering 52 different jurisdictions on a multitude of different issues such as reimbursement, privacy, prescribing, patient- provider relationships and others. Policy changes were happening so rapidly, that during one presentation, I had to jump back in ten minutes after I spoke because half the information I had just covered was made irrelevant as a new guidance from the federal government had been issued right after my talk. There was no time to consider not doing this work as it became clear that the need was too who suddenly needed to shift their practices to telehealth, having no idea where to begin. The national technology center assisted providers in their questions regarding what technology should be used to deliver services. CCHP’s work involved all of the policy changes that were happening on the federal and state level. This included tracking, analyzing,