HealthLeaders Media June 23, 2021
Incentives remain unaligned with the use of health IT, but 21st Century Cures Act implementation is one tool in ONC’s arsenal.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Ultimate EHR success still requires better ties to payment models and focus on passing functional tests.
– Telehealth holds promise for increasing competition to consumers’ benefit, panelists say.
– Former ONC chiefs recommend listening, current chief Micky Tripathi says ONC says every comment is taken very seriously.
– FHIR-based vaccination scheduling at the state level was a bright spot for interoperability during the pandemic, ONC chief says.
Lock-in of all sorts, ranging from the geographic lock-in of hospital consolidation to the vendor lock-in of electronic health records, was on the minds of former national coordinators of...