PARCA eNews – July 1, 2016 –
Following feedback from the Health IT community, the Office of the National
Coordinator has pledged to simplify measurements for interoperability.
Writing in the HealthITBuzz blog, Seth Pazinski / Director, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and
Analysis, and Talisha Searcy / Director of Research and Evaluation, Office of
Planning, Evaluation and Analysis, ONC outlined their efforts to listen to
stakeholders in Health IT in developing metrics for measuring interoperability.
Based on the feedback, they
developed two criteria for measuring widespread interoperability that will:
- Look at the proportion of providers who are electronically engaging in sending, receiving, finding and integrating information received from outside sources.
- Look at the proportion of providers who report using that information for clinical decision-making.
The goal of the process was
to avoid adding to provider’s reporting burden and reduce the complexity of
data collection. To that end, ONC will rely on existing IT surveys by the
American Hospital Association and the CDC. As these surveys touch providers
across the country in a variety of practices and are not limited to the
Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, which broadens the scope of
measurement, and won’t add to the burden of reporting.
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