Healthcare DIVE October 17, 2019
Dive Brief:
- A key HHS advisory committee unanimously passed a slate of recommendations Wednesday for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, including a model linking the inclusion of data elements in a national health dataset to milestones and not a timeline as previously proposed, and ranking interoperability standards priorities.
- The Health IT Advisory Committee also outlined 2020 priorities and the myriad problems still to be addressed in the industry, including privacy and security, secondary uses of data, additional work to clarify HHS’ two interoperability rules and price transparency.
- Despite industry opposition, HITAC telegraphed interest in creating a separate task force to look specifically at price transparency, with committee member Denise Webb calling it “an area where...
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