The effort would have helped increase efficiency and reduced costs
April 14, 2025
Health Tech Reporter
The future of a technology modernization program, meant to help the government understand if the billions of tax dollars it spends on community health centers are in fact making Americans healthy, now looks uncertain.
The layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services included dozens of employees at the Health Resources and Services Administration who were working on the technology upgrade, which has been years in the making and was set to launch next month. As many as 1,200 of the roughly 1,400 health centers were set to go live with the upgrade on May 31 — a milestone that is unlikely to be met, given the number of critical federal staff who were fired.
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