Healthcare DIVE March 18, 2020
Dive Brief:
- The Trump administration is considering pushing back the timeline for payers, providers and health IT vendors to come into compliance with its two sweeping rules to promote interoperability as the healthcare system struggles with the novel coronavirus outbreak.
- “That is definitely something that is under consideration,” Denise St. Clair, an analyst in CMS’ Health Informatics Office, said Wednesday during a meeting of the Health IT Advisory Committee. “We are definitely thinking through all of the real and incredibly important work that everyone needs to be focusing on right now.”
- However, some health IT experts are calling for more urgency, not less, to fix the outdated EHR infrastructure and allow the free flow of clinical data to combat...