October 17, 2012
by Mark Hagland
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The National Coordinator for Health IT exhorts his audience to move forward with meaningful use to improve the healthcare system for our society as a whole
Mostashari then responded to several questions conveyed to him by Randy McCleese, clarifying the intention behind the requirements around the continuity of care document (CCD), or, as he gently urged it be better termed, the “consolidated CDA” [consolidated clinical document architecture], and deftly sidestepping political issues, including a question around what might happen to healthcare reform if former Gov. Mitt Romney were elected president in November, though he endorsed the CHIME advocacy team’s response to the letter sent recently by Republican members of the House of Representatives to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urging that the meaningful use process be shut down over interoperability concerns.
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Mr M looking for 'IT Heros'
At Chime Mr. M’s big push was to ask CIOs to become ‘IT Heros’. Given the still vague nature of the MU program, the shifting details as we go from Stage 1 to 2, and the now political nature it has taken on, I am afraid that today’s IT Hero will be tomorrow’s MU Martyr.
The MU audits have just started and remember if you miss just one criteria by even a smidgen – it’s bang your dead. And I doubt very much that when the **%% hits the fan Mr M will ride to the rescue.
Hate to be a wet blanket but I’ve lived in the health care regulatory world since Medicare started and it always comes down to the bucks.
Frank Poggio
The Kelzon Group
http://Kelzongroup.com