Months after federal health officials said they want to push the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation in a “new direction,” provider and health IT associations are advocating for the inclusion of health technology and data in new payment models.
Several organizations, including the American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and HIMSS highlighted the need for real-time data and health informatics tools to properly execute value-based payment models.
Their comments were submitted in response to a request for information announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in September following an op-ed by CMS Administrator Seema Verma in which she indicated the agency was reviewing the payment models generated through CMMI.
HIMSS specifically called on (PDF) the agency to devote more attention toward interoperability and health information exchange and the way in which various business models “impact providers’ ability, or incentive, to share patient data.” The group also called…” Read full article here
