Healthcare Innovation March 27, 2020
Ideas range from implementing new ICD-10 codes to working with FCC on securing broadband for first responders and healthcare workers in the field
During a hastily called March 26 meeting of the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, members sought to identify steps ONC could take to be most helpful to healthcare provider organizations in the short-term COVID-19 emergency.
Speaking with urgency, the chief information officers and chief medical information officers on the committee pressed several key points.
Brett Oliver, M.D., the CMIO for Baptist Health in Louisville, Ky., said other steps ONC could address would be nice, but noted that “My one, two and three right now is...