Healthcare DIVE February 11, 2017
Dive Brief:
- Health IT capabilities have improved in recent years, but this has not translated into meaningful improvements in quality of care or job productivity, Andy Slavitt, former acting administrator for CMS, said in an interview with HIStalk.
- Slavitt accused the health IT industry of self-congratulatory behavior despite widespread frustration with its products and called for a more blunt discussion about what these products are not doing.
- Slavitt, who served as CMS acting administrator from March 2015 to January 2017, expressed some frustration with the health IT industry during his interview with HIStalk. Asked whether if taxpayers are getting their money’s worth out of $35 billion in federal funding for health IT investments, Slavitt responded, “Not yet we haven’t.”...
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