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Starting this week, the editors of Managed Healthcare Executive® are launching a new, twice-a-month podcast about how those barriers can removed, lowered, or worked around so all patients get the healthcare they need.

MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with Matthew Michela, President and CEO of Life Image, the world’s largest medical evidence and image exchange network. The two delved through the specific steps each type of healthcare organization - from health systems, payers and IT companies - must follow to comply to meet the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) new interoperability and patient access rules.

So far, hospitals and other healthcare providers have received approximately $125 billion of the $175 billion allocated to the federal Provider Relief Fund to cover costs related to coronavirus care. This injection of resources has helped providers manage the costs related to the coronavirus, but it has also raised questions about the requirements for accepting and spending the funds.

Vivek Murthy, M.D., MBA, former surgeon general, David Kessler, M.D., former FDA commissioner, and Marcella Nunez-Smith, M.D., M.H.S., an associate professor at Yale Medical School are the co-chairs