HIT Policy Committee

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2014 MU Incentive Program Off To A Relatively Slow Start

Diana Manos | Government HealthIT | April 9, 2014

As of the end of February, there were 458,137 total participants – up from 448,750 in January – from all versions of the EHR incentive program, according to Elizabeth Myers, head of policy and outreach at the Office of eHealth Standards and Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at the Tuesday HIT Policy Committee meeting.

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21st Century Cures and the Road Ahead

By John D. Halamka, MD | December 7, 2016

I’ve been writing fewer posts recently because the trajectory forward for healthcare and healthcare IT seems to be evolving very rapidly. In just the past week, we’ve had: the American Hospital Association letter suggesting that 21,000 pages of regulations be rolled back including Meaningful Use Stage Three concepts and quality measurement in many care settings, the passage of the 21st Century Cures bill and its many IT related mandates, and the nomination of Tom Price for HHS Secretary and Seema Verma for CMS administrator...

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DeSalvo Proposes New Direction For ONC

Diana Manos | Government HealthIT | April 9, 2014

Karen DeSalvo, MD, the national coordinator for health information technology has proposed that ONC become “more forward-thinking.” At a Health Information Policy Committee on Tuesday, of which she is the chair, she urged the committee to consider what needs to change.

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DeSalvo: America 'Waiting For Us To Get Interoperability Right'

Tom Sullivan, | Government Health IT | September 3, 2014

Calling it a “changing of the horizon,” national coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD, said that her office is working to refresh the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. “It’s an opportunity to look at HIT beyond the EHR and policy levers beyond meaningful use,” DeSalvo said of the forthcoming plan...

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Health Information Technology: Putting the Patient Back into Health Care

Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | May 21, 2012

Most government advisory committees are stocked with representatives of corporations and special interest groups who distort government policies, sometimes unconsciously and with good intentions, to fertilize their own turfs. In health information technology, we have a rare chance to ensure that the most affected members of the public actually have their own direct representative.

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