EHR Intelligence December 4, 2018
HHS Deputy Secretary Hargan underscored the importance of cutting regulatory burden on health IT developers to enable interoperability.
Reducing regulatory and administrative burden on health IT developers and providers is necessary to paving the way for interoperability in healthcare.
This sentiment came from HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan at the ONC 2018 Annual Meeting last week.
“It is actually impossible to move to a future health system, the one that we need, one that pays for procedures rather than sickness, without a truly interoperable health IT system,” said Hargan. “Now, sadly, that remains in our future too. Like a value-based system, an interoperable system remains in our future.”
Achieving interoperability is a top priority among regulators and health IT developers...