HIEWatch July 8, 2015
One idea that looks promising as a part of the meaningful use EHR program is the broad category of “advanced health models,” which was recently probed by the Health IT Policy Committee’s Advanced Health Models and Meaningful Use Workgroup.
The workgroup, chaired by Paul Tang, MD, the chief innovation and technology officer at Sutter Health’s Palo Alto Medical Foundation, is charged with finding ways “to facilitate the effective use of health IT to support and scale advanced health models.”
What does that mean? Well, basically, it seems that it’s another way to describe bringing healthcare to people where they need it and in ways they want. “Improving health will require a broad expansion of the traditional medical ‘continuum of care’...
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