A November 22 article, "Feds Likely to Focus on Health
Data Security at Meeting," in Bloomberg BNA's Health
Care Daily Report and other publications discussed the
upcoming annual meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator
for Health Information Technology (ONC) November 30 - December
1. Day Pitney's Eric Fader was quoted in the
article.
Eric told Bloomberg BNA that one of the central questions
underlying many health information technology issues is how willing
the Trump administration is to impose and enforce requirements on
healthcare providers. The theme of the ONC meeting, "Tackling
Barriers to Interoperability and Usability," implies that the
administration plans decisive action, but in the past the
Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services have gone in the opposite direction, Eric
said, relaxing requirements on provider data reporting and reducing
support for alternative payment models that encourage information
sharing.
"Clearly no one's suggesting unwinding all the recent
provider consolidations, accountable care organizations and other
value-based care coordination initiatives and going back to
fee-for-service health care, but universal interoperability
isn't going to happen without the government agencies
continuing to push people along," Eric said.
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