Last month, Medicare and Medicaid service centers and assistant technology policy assistant/National Coordinator of Health Information Technology A. Request information From the wider health care and health community.
The goal, which was recently restructured HHS during the Robert F. Kennedy, the son, is the collection of data to help in “CMS and ASTP/ONC efforts to lead infrastructure progress,” increasing the access of beneficiaries of medical care to tools that will help them make better health decisions, and “increasing data availability to contribute to all brands for health contribution.”
CMS and ASTP have identified a series of cases of use corresponding to different groups-patients, introductions, motivated, sellers, value-based care organizations-also encouraged patients and other interest advocates to share comments.
This week, many leading health care technology groups have presented their views.
The seller’s views
Himss EHR Association – which represents approximately 30 member companies that develop, implement and support health information technology approved for hospitals and ambulance services providers worldwide – He had some ideas How can the agencies help the stakeholders in the industry succeed.
In its 25 -page message to the director of CMS, Dr. Memtamed Oz, the association provided detailed reactions to a wide range of health information technology use.
One of the areas he emphasized was the need for the patient to match: “CMS should give priority to national strategies to enhance the patient’s identity solution. Digital identity management plays an important role in this, but reliable matching and linking to the actual record is the most important aspect of ensuring careful access to the full record of the patient through data owners.”
Another is the need for the socialist determinants that can be shared more easily for health data: “Non -medical factors that strongly affect health, such as food security, access to transportation, and family support, are rarely captured in organized and exchangeable formatting. For coordination.
EHRA CMS also called to comply with the requirements of the stressful reporting of service providers and IT developers who serve them, noting that “the frequent updates of quality measures and reporting expectations are often with limited time to implement, creating challenges for development, and lead to more episodes that can merge more.
“We are committed to working for an ecosystem for health care, which benefits from EHRS and other information technology health to provide high -quality care for patients efficiently and in a fruitful and sustainable way,” EHRA can be able to make a better decision than their health and provide them better. “
Applications and TEFCA
For its part, the American Hospitals Association Select many recommendations To help ASTP and CMS improve the standards of information technology and health infrastructure, enhance the patient’s access to effective digital sanitary ware and enhance data availability to improve health results.
Among some of its many recommendations for the two agencies, AHA made these suggestions:
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Cooperation through agencies to face the broader infrastructure challenges associated with relying on health information technology, such as a lack of wide range, training in digital literacy and trusted access to Wi -Fi for rural and disadvantaged societies.
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Supporting compensation for the use of health technology by clarifying guidelines for digital health and symbols of consulting bills between professionals, and developing paths to provide temporary payment of new technologies.
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Enhancing accountability and sharing from warm on the ability to operate with the demand that the affected motivation depends and the use of approved impartial applications (APIS) and the development of safety and security requirements for the provider’s manual programming interface.
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Unpopping the provider of service providers at the final base in June 2024, “The Law of Treatment of the twenty -first century: Create inhibitors for healthcare providers who committed the blocking of information.” Under the final rule, hospitals and service providers participating in banning information may face excessive payment discounts, which threaten access to services (especially in rural and disadvantaged areas).
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Building an additional infrastructure to provide supervision of trusted exchange framework and the joint agreement (TEFCA), including creating an agenda for all qualified health information networks (Qhins).
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Providing protection to ensure hospitals or health systems that have a suspended QHIN or an end to the responsibility for prohibiting information.
“We look forward to working with CMS, ASTP/ONC and the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) to help achieve full technology capabilities to improve health results, fully involve patients in managing their health and reducing administrative burden,” said Ashley Thompson, AHA chief vice president to analyze public policy.
Patient guidance sharing
The Prime Minister, and at the same time, She presented her own perspective On the necessities of intercourse and access to the patient in a 20 -page message to Dr. Oz. Among her recommendations for CMS:
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Coordination of overlapping operating lists to enhance more competition in the market.
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Update the criteria of meaningful use, the criteria for certification for information technology and the total overlapping incentives stimulating it is a federal union to ensure stimulating data use to improve quality and improve the process sufficiently.
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Clearly define the prohibition of information, its implementation and its imposition on strict information that prevents penalties for the participants in the ecosystem of health data beyond the service providers and service providers.
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Extending the incentives of the electronic health records of the mutual operation to the post -sharp and continued care providers.
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Develop a comprehensive framework for financial and non -financial incentives to enhance value -based care sharing, which in turn leads to adopting technology empowerment solutions.
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A mechanism for sharing data for the patient such as the Blue 2.0 button in the standards of approved electronic health records technology (CEHRT).
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It requires more sharing of the unified data by CMS health and patient providers.
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Improving the authenticity of risk modification data (RADV) by experimenting with a program based on CMS, actual time, instead of perpetuating the payment and chase form.
The officials said: “The Prime Minister supports the efforts of the administration to enable patients through effective adoption and technology responsible for health care,” and “is looking forward to continuing to work with CMS and ASTP/ONC to implement these recommendations to launch innovation and improve efficiency in delivering health care.”
Automated data exchange
in Her comments To CMS and ASTP, the working group to exchange electronic data confirmed that more work must be done to achieve the goals of the twenty -first century treatments, and to increase the implementation of CMS and complization the final rule.
He invited Wedi CMS and ASTP to explore opportunities to improve a healthy technology environment through:
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Ensure that the health information needs of the patient and her care are in the center of the ecosystem.
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Encouraging the exchange of smooth and automatic data through mature, clear and non -compressed standards that have been tested accurately and show a meaningful return on investment.
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Merging data exchange efficiently into the health and provider and functioning of the other users.
“The Wedi’s work is driven by alleviating the administrative burden, placing patients in their care center, implementing the standards based on consensus, mature standards that support automation, and maintaining appropriate guarantees for privacy, security and confidentiality.” “We look forward to continuing our work with CMS and ASTP while reviewing industry notes on this RFI and starting to implement these initiatives.”
A distance remote
And in it commentsThe ATA Action Trade Group of the American Troup Association remotely focused on virtual care. Among some of I ask CMS, as shown in a 10 -page message:
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Cooperation with Congress to ensure a continued distance of health care in the field of medical care and to make some of the constantly constant citizen a permanent dimension.
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Treating the requirements of Medicaid site within the country.
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Enhancing digital health innovation through appropriate payment.
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Adopting reasonable medical equipment requirements for software products.
“ATA Action focuses on ensuring that all individuals get permanent access to digital health products and services through the sponsorship chain,” said CEO Kayel Zelly.
He added: “ATA Action realizes that digital health products and services have the ability to truly convert a health care system – by improving patient results, promoting safety and care effectiveness, treating healthy variations, and reducing costs – if only allows prosperity.”
Mike Milliad is the executive of the Healthcare It News
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