HIT Infrastructure July 3, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to cause an influx of Medicaid enrollees and states must modernize their health IT infrastructure to ensure broader interoperability.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic exposed many of the weaknesses in the healthcare system, one of the most prominent weakness that has affected the country is antiquated health IT infrastructure in the Medicaid program, according to an independent health economist.
Antiquated IT has blocked individuals from receiving their unemployment insurance benefits and could create roadblocks for people becoming newly eligible for Medicaid due to rising unemployment rates, Jack Meyer stated in a recent Health Affairs blog post. Meyer was a principal with Health Management Associates and a professor in the Schools of Public Policy and Public Health...
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