21st Century Cures and the Road Ahead

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*TheAmerican 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 the21st Century Cures bill and its many IT related mandates*The nomination ofTom Price for HHS Secretary  andSeema Verma for CMS administratorAs I ’ve written about previously, I believe that value-based purchasing and the move to reimbursement based on quality measurement will still continue.  QPP ,IPPS andOPPS will rollout as scheduled.What can we expected from 21st Century Cures?  Here ’s an IT centric evaluation:*The HIT Policy Committee and HIT Standards Committee will be consolidated into the HIT Advisory Committee. Thus, we ’ve gone from HITSP in the Bush administration to HITSC in the Obama Administration to HITAC in the Trump administration.*Sec. 4001. Assisting Doctors and Hospital in Improving Quality of Care for Patients - ONC shall encourage, keep or recognize voluntary certification of health information technology for use in medical specialties and sites of service for which no such technology is available or where more advancement is needed. Requires the Secretary of HHS to submit a report to the HIT Advisory Committee on the a...
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