Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

For something as important and as sensitive as healthcare, there are plenty of rules and regulations in place to protect both patients and organizations. However, with healthcare being ever-evolving our regulations are also ever evolving. This can make it extremely difficult to not only follow all of the ones in place today but to prepare our organizations for the upcoming regulations. To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. The following is what they had to say. Stephen Sofoul, SVP, Data & Decision Science Services at MultiPlan A critical challenge lies in the shortage of experienced financial analysts or data analysts capable of effectively analyzing the wealth of information that the healthcare industry holds. As a result, the industry struggles to provide meaningful insights and harness the power of data to drive positive change. Price transparency is vital for making informed healthcare decisions, so enforcement of transparency-related policies will continue to increase. This will compel payers to take immediate steps to gain more visibility into their data to better inform that decision-making. Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. The public health emergency (PHE) resulted in a temporary lifting of certa...
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