In October, we provided comments to ONC on its April 2015 “Report on Health Information Blocking”, in the spirit of collaborating to establish an environment where the right data can flow to the right party at the right time using a set of agreed-upon standards. While some press coverage characterized our comments as negative (“…Prove It”), we in fact attempted to provide balanced feedback, recognizing that the first challenge is to come up with a definition of “information blocking” that everyone agrees on.
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EHRA’s Advice to ONC on Information Blocking
Posted by ewest123 on November 15, 2015
https://ehrablog.org/2015/11/15/ehras-advice-to-onc-on-information-blocking/
EHRA Leadership Insights: The SGR Repeal
Leigh Burchell (VP, Policy and Government Affairs at Allscripts), former vice chair of EHRA and current vice chair of our Public Policy Leadership Workgroup, provides background and insights into the recent repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) regulation, why your provider customers are happy about it, and how it moves us forward in implementing a value-based reimbursement model.
Read her post, “R.I.P. SGR” on the Allscripts blog.
Posted by ewest123 on April 21, 2015
https://ehrablog.org/2015/04/21/ehra-leadership-insights-the-sgr-repeal/
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Posted by ewest123 on January 16, 2015
https://ehrablog.org/2015/01/16/welcome-to-the-ehr-association-blog/