Healthcare DIVE October 18, 2018
- Industry groups are urging the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to consolidate existing health IT comparison resources in a centralized clearinghouse as part of the EHR Reporting Program mandated in the 21st Century Cures Act.
- Doing so would create a one-stop shop where end users could quickly access comparative information on a variety of certified health IT products, the American Health Information Management Association and National Rural Health Association wrote in separate comments on a request for information on the reporting program.
- Comparative information provided under the program should be user-friendly and presented in every-day language, the groups said. ‘We recognize that the...