HealthIT Answers February 5, 2025
By Dustin Charles and Alex Mugge, ASTP/ONC
The 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (Plan) provides a blueprint of the work that federal agencies have underway to improve the access, exchange, and use of electronic health information (EHI) and achieve better health outcomes for all Americans. This post explores how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the largest payer in health care, is at the forefront of how health IT directly impacts health care providers and the care they deliver.
Helping Providers Spend More Time with Patients
The Plan recognizes the opportunity to use health IT so that “providers experience reduced regulatory and administrative burden.”
A key contributor to provider burden is prior authorization, the process under which...
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