On Wednesday, a Health IT Policy Committee’s interoperability task force proposed convening a summit on health information exchange to ensure stakeholders are on the “same page” when it comes to achieving interoperability, Health Data Management reports .
Background
The task force is reviewing the clinical, technical, organizational and financial barriers to health IT interoperability (Slabodkin, Health Data Management, 9/11). The task force is scheduled to provide the committee with final recommendations Oct. 6 (iHealthBeat, 8/26). The recommendations will help inform the Policy Committee’s final report which is due to Congress in December.
Policy Committee Meeting Details
During a Policy Committee meeting, interoperability task force Chair Paul Tang said the summit, which would be “co-led” by the federal government and the private sector, would be used to act on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s roadmap to achieve basic interoperability (Health Data Management, 9/11).
Tang said that the roadmap’s goals are achievable if the industry picks up the pace (Walsh, Clinical Innovation & Technology, 9/10).
Tang said that the health industry is not acting quickly enough to support delivery system reform and the shift to value-based payments, therefore necessitating a “synchronous” multi-stakeholder effort (Dvorak, FierceHealthIT, 9/10).
He said, “We need to get together and figure out who needs to do what at what time,” which is “why we think that we need the power of the federal government to convene the major stakeholders and enduring private-sector business interests to sustain the effort” (Health Data Management, 9/11).
Meanwhile, the task force also recommended developing and implementing ways to measure health information exchange-sensitive outcomes for public reporting and payment. Tang said such measures could include withholding reimbursement for duplicate orders that are medically unnecessary (FierceHealthIT, 9/10).
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