Past ONC coordinators, HIT execs clash on HITECH value

Healthcare DIVE September 8, 2017
Jeff Byers, Meg Bryant

Dive Brief:

• The Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has largely succeeded in spurring EHR use, a group of former national coordinatorswrote in The New England Journal of Medicine. The authors argue while the systems aren’t perfect, they have overall been beneficial.
• Countering that argument in NEJM are two health IT executives who say the effort has faltered because of lack of infrastructure and too much regulation.
• Both parties suggest the way forward is to embrace standards and more open platforms.

Dive Insight:

While HITECH got most providers adopting health IT, it overwhelmed them with regulatory requirements like Meaningful Use and an inability to easily share digital information. The two perspectives show the competing views...

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