MedPage Today February 12, 2019
-The government is a step ahead in promoting EHR interoperability
The federal government has gone ahead of the private sector when it comes to promoting interoperability of electronic health records (EHRs), and now it’s up to the private sector to catch up, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Seema Verma said here Tuesday.
“The federal government has already spent $36 billion on interoperability; we’ve made the investment and it’s up to the private sector to take the next step,” she said at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual meeting.
Verma’s remarks came only a day after CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released proposed rules for promoting...
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