Becker's Healthcare January 31, 2018
B. Vindell Washington, MD, former National Coordinator for Health IT, believes various data strategies hold transformative potential in 2018.
Dr. Washington, who joined ONC in 2016 under the Obama administration, says the U.S. is in the midst of a “continuing evolution of health IT,” tracing back to at least the 2009 passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.
The HITECH Act is often credited with spurring nationwide adoption of health IT systems, such as EHRs. In 2016, 99.1 percent of hospitals had partially or completely implemented an EHR system, up from 33.6 percent in 2003, according to a 2017 study published in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.
Despite nearly ubiquitous EHR adoption in the...
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