“Five years into the nation’s 10-year interoperability roadmap, where do we stand? For new draft regulations just out from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), what is our polestar? Are we halfway there yet?”
“…While the digital health ecosystem has progressed rapidly over the past five years, recent regulations proposed by the ONC and CMS push the public and private sectors to take an overdue leap forward on the roadmap. Some may suggest that the draft regulations move too fast in some areas, while others may urge that we catch up in key areas to reach the roadmap’s goal of nationwide interoperability by 2024. We suggest using a set of four core use cases to assess the sufficiency of the draft regulations and to mark our progress on the road to an interoperable nationwide learning health system…”
“As stakeholders and experts wrestle with whether we are moving too fast or too slow, we suggest using four core use cases to assess interoperability proposals and to monitor our progress on the road to an interoperable nationwide learning health system. These four use cases are national priorities for interoperability and should help the ONC, CMS, and stakeholders align abstract discussions with real and immediate needs. They help explain and assess how a proposal would work in real-world situations and allow us to identify the opportunity costs of a road not taken.” Read the full article here.
Source: The Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap And The ONC’s And CMS’s Proposed New Regulations: Are We Halfway There Yet? – By Karen DeSalvo and Mark Savage, June 25, 2019. Health Affairs.
