A special panel event at HIMSS19 with industry experts on advancing interoperability.
Ten years after the federal government’s massive investment in health information technology (HIT) through the HITECH Act, experts from across the healthcare spectrum gathered to discuss and identify progress made and where gaps remain at a special event during the HIMSS 2019 conference.
The discussion focused on what providers, manufacturers, payers, government and patients must do to enable a patient’s electronic health information to be seamlessly accessed across different settings. They discussed how success in this effort elevates healthcare quality, cost-efficiency and safety. The panel included:
- Moderator: Tom Daschle —former Senate Democratic Leader; Bipartisan Policy Center Co-founder
- AdventHealth – Terry Shaw, President and CEO
- American Academy of Family Physicians – R. Shawn Martin, Senior Vice President
- American College of Physicians – Darilyn Moyer, M.D., Executive Vice President and CEO
- Cerner —Brent Shafer, Chairman and CEO
- Change Healthcare —Neil de Crescenzo, President and CEO
- Healthcare Leadership Council —Mary Grealy, President
- Hearst Health —Jeff Rose, M.D., Senior Vice President
- Leidos —Jonathan Scholl, President, Health Group
- ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT) — Don Rucker, MD, National Coordinator
- Surescripts —Tom Skelton, CEO
The Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) (@HealthInFocus) and Bipartisan Policy Center (@BPC_Bipartisan) released a new report that recommends public and private sector actions that will advance health information technology (IT) interoperability, giving providers easier access to patients’ clinical data and empowering individuals with increased access to their own health information. The actions support better health and higher quality, safer, more cost-effective, patient-centered care. Several recommendations in the report align with proposed rules just released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).