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*Thoughts on PCAST — “Without a doubt, it could not be implemented in the timeframe that was suggested in the original report”
*Other ways than MU to foster progress
*The quality measures conundrum
*Are CIOs influencing policy? “I’d be thrilled to see a mainstream, community healthcare system CIO on the Policy Committee itself”
*The cost of volunteering
*PCAST implications
*The new National Coordinator
*The government process — “It’s not the way you’d run a business, for sure”
*Thoughts on Stage 2
*Staying in sync with government
*Thoughts on PCAST — “We do not believe that putting health data in a cloud is in the best interests of our patients from a security and privacy standpoint”
*Thinking through the new ACO regs
*Meshing ACO/MU — “We believe we’re directionally correct and fundamentally aligned”
*An update on the Epic project
*Life post-implementation
Judy Faulkner, CEO of Epic and a member of the HIT Policy Committee, told other members of the committee and new National Coordinator Farzad Mostashari, M.D., she was concerned that forces promoting the PCAST vision also stood to gain from its adoption. “What is showing up in blogs — I have seen and sometimes been […]
At its final meeting — during which Chair Paul Egerman sought to put the finishing touches on its upcoming report to the HIT Policy Committee — some members of ONC’s PCAST Report Workgroup chafed at their narrow mandate of only suggesting ways the report’s principles could be integrated with Meaningful Use, not commenting on its […]
