“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is maintaining its focus on information blocking, interoperability, and coordination between federal agencies, according to Micky Tripathi, national coordinator for health IT.”
“’We built this foundation of EHR systems and we are now able to pause and ask the question ‘what is it that we want to do with these systems now?’ Tripathi posited at the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) 2021 Conference.”
“’There is still hard work to do and there are still adoption issues in parts of the healthcare delivery system that haven’t benefited directly from the federal government incentives,’ Tripathi said. ‘But in terms of hospitals and the ambulatory side, they were able to benefit from those incentive programs and do the hard work of implementation.'”
“Now that ONC and healthcare stakeholders laid the foundation, Tripathi urged the industry to think deeply and “jump ahead” to do great things with EHR systems.”
“’We’ve spent a lot of time getting EHR systems to do the basic things, such as core clinical documentation, core clinical documentation to support payment, and medical records,’ Tripathi pointed out. ‘Those are important functions, but they are baseline functions.'”
“The ONC leader highlighted four that ONC is working on information blocking, COVID-19, TEFCA, and coordination between federal agencies for the present and the future…” Read the full article here.
Source: Tripathi: Let’s Do Great Things With EHR Systems, Interoperability — By Christopher Jason, May 20, 2021. EHR Intelligence.
