Healthy Patients Through Health Technology
Healthy Patients Through Health Technology
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On January 31, the American Telemedicine Association hosted a congressional staff briefing entitled “Physician Licensure Barriers to 21st Century Healthcare.” The event focused on state-based licensure barriers and efforts to advance healthcare through nationwide licensure.
Posted On: February 1, 2012
Last week, the Bipartisan Policy Center released its latest study, Transforming Health Care: The Role of Health IT. The comprehensive study examined six common attributes of the United States’ best health care organizations and recommended six objectives to improve patient access to quality health care providers and to reduce the cost of care for consumers.
Yesterday, the second of two proposed health IT rules were submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for review. The first rule is from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and addresses technical infrastructure issues and the second is a policy that addresses which quality measures providers will have to report. The second of the two comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The Health IT Policy Committee had its first meeting of the New Year and was briefed on the progress of the Meaningful Use program and the regulatory timeline for 2012.
National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. Farzad Mostashari has said that meaningful use will soar in the coming year. He has ensured the health IT community, that his office will take necessary steps to “ensure that every provider can be successful at meaningful use.”
Health IT is among the leading markets in job creation and recovery. Government numbers show that the number of available healthcare related jobs has continued to grow. The expanding industry has created, on average, 27,000 new jobs each month.
Health information technology implementation is picking up speed. Providers are transitioning to electronic health records and patients are utilizing accompanying tools.
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