On June 7, 2016, the EHR Association sponsored a briefing for Congressional staff engaged in crafting proposed legislation that addresses interoperability. EHRA member company, Allscripts, invited their client Stephen Nuckolls, CEO of Coastal Carolina Health Care (New Bern, North Carolina, U.S.A.), to participate as a panelist, along with four other healthcare provider organization executives. Their blog post shares some of his comments at the briefing, which covered successes and areas for improvement with health information technology.
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Briefing Congress on the Importance of Interoperability
Posted by ewest123 on June 28, 2016
https://ehrablog.org/2016/06/28/briefing-congress-on-the-importance-of-interoperability/
EHRA Responds to ONC’s Interoperability Roadmap
After many conference calls, and lots of “on the job training” using Google Docs to manage the edits of many contributors, we were pleased to submit our response to ONC’s Interoperability Roadmap. . . just in time to start working on the interoperability aspects of the proposed rule for Stage 3 of the EHR Incentive Program . . .and to get ready for HIMSS15!
Overall, we’re positive about the framework the draft Roadmap is starting to put in place, its identified principles, and the pragmatic review of well-established and emerging interoperability standards and technologies. We did express some concern that ONC seems to view the many active, and increasingly successful, interoperability initiatives as a problem to be solved rather than work to inform go-forward strategies with valuable experiences to be built upon. In doing so, we provided some positive suggestions on how to approach interoperability governance in ways that rely on and leverage private sector efforts in the context of an effective public/private partnership.
Posted by ewest123 on April 10, 2015
https://ehrablog.org/2015/04/10/ehra-responds-to-oncs-interoperability-roadmap/
Federal Health IT Policy: Where is it heading and why should you care?
(November 4, 2014) Mark Segal, EHRA Chair (GE Healthcare IT), comments on future directions in federal health IT policy that are taking shape. We are starting to see clear, reinforcing themes from Congress, the Administration, policy experts, and key stakeholders.
See the full post at the GE Healthcare blog.
Posted by ewest123 on November 4, 2014
https://ehrablog.org/2014/11/04/federal-health-it-policy-where-is-it-heading-and-why-should-you-care/
Is federal regulation of health IT going to ease up to allow for more innovation?
(July 14, 2014) Read EHRA Chair Mark Segal’s blog post on how he sees regulators responding to persistent requests from the private sector and a variety of stakeholder organizations (including EHRA) to design Stage 3 of the meaningful use incentive program to build on lessons learned from Stages 1 and 2, and focus on interoperability and alignment of quality measures and reporting across government programs.
Posted by ewest123 on July 14, 2014
https://ehrablog.org/2014/07/14/is-federal-regulation-of-health-it-going-to-ease-up-to-allow-for-more-innovation/
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