Healthcare DIVE April 27, 2017
Dive Brief:
- “True interoperability has always been the goal,” HHS Secretary Tom Price said at Health Datapalooza 2017 in Washington D.C. on Thursday.
- Yet the path toward achieving that goal has been getting bogged down in recent years, Price said, suggesting guidance from the HHS to be able to decide on “the rules of the road.”
- He also believes that the industry is in need of new healthcare policies focused on “accessibility, affordability, quality and empowering patients,” as well as patient-centered care that reduces the administrative burdens that more and more clinicians have been reporting.
Dive Insight:
This was Price’s health IT first speech after being confirmed as the HHS Secretary and he has a lot to say...
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