Modern Healthcare February 24, 2017
Joseph Conn and Rachel Arndt

ORLANDO, Fla.—Members of nearly every corner of the healthcare sector all seemed to share the same uncertainty during this year’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society convention.

The sprawling HIMSS show—in prior years used by officials from the CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology as a forum to explain new rules and tout federal health IT policies—was a virtual showcase of unanswered policy questions this year.

The ONC in particular faces delays in rulemaking while awaiting its new leader.

Some of the uncertainty pertains to adding regulatory flesh to the 21st Century Cures Act, passed last year. The Cures Act calls on the health IT industry to reach for interoperability and steer clear of...

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Topics: CMS, Congress / White House, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HHS, HIE (Interoperability), MACRA, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Regulations
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