Healthcare Informatics January 9, 2018
The distinguished healthcare CIO says the government’s Precision Medicine Initiative “is doing exactly what it needs to as a catalytic force for change” .
It was less than two years ago when John Halamka, M.D., CIO at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, ripped apart what at the time was the first proposed Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) rule.
In May 2016, Dr. Halamka, who is often looked at as a go-to source for his thoughts on health IT policy issues, said, “The 962 pages of MACRA are so overwhelmingly complex, that no mere human will be able to understand them,” adding, “This may sound cynical, but there are probably only two rational choices for clinicians going forward—become...