During a joint meeting of the Health IT Policy and Standards committees last week, members voted to approve task force recommendations for a health IT comparison tool, Clinical Innovation & Technology reports (Walsh, Clinical Innovation & Technology, 1/22).
Background
The 10-member Certified Technology Comparison Task Force is tasked with developing recommendations on ways to create a comparison tool that providers can use to help them choose electronic health record systems.
Under the 2009 economic stimulus package, providers who demonstrate meaningful use of certified EHRs can qualify for Medicaid and Medicare incentive payments.
The new tool will upgrade the Certified Health IT Product List maintained by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
As part of the review process, the task force can examine:
- Comparison tools currently offered by the government and private entities; and
- Providers’ health IT needs.
The task force met for the first time in November 2015.
Earlier this month, the task force heard feedback from doctors on how to create a health IT comparison tool (iHealthBeat, 1/11). For the full article click here
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