The election and healthcare IT
November 6, 2012 by MassDevice
Tomorrow the Presidential election process comes to an end and the advertising will finally stop. We'll all be relieved. I especially look forward to a quiet dinner at home without robotic election-related calls.
What about healthcare IT? Will differences in the Obama and Romney platforms impact the momentum of Meaningful Use?
Here's what I believe.
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The Obama Healthcare IT platform builds on what we've created over the past few years. It will continue to leverage the federal advisory committees (Policy and Standards) to engage a wide array of stakeholders. It will persist the progression to Meaningful Use Stage 3 and possibly future stages. It will embrace certification now the temporary certification process has been replaced with a permanent one. It will support the initiatives of the Standards and Interoperability framework (S&I), although the end of stimulus funds from ARRA means that ONC will move some of the S&I initiatives to private/public partnerships. It will support the current leadership at ONC - Farzad and his delegates such as Steve Posnack, Doug Fridsma, and Judy Murphy.
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