AMIA Shares Recommendations On Health IT-Friendly Policymaking

The American Medical Informatics Association has released the findings from a new paper addressing health IT policy, including recommendation on how policymakers can support patient access to health data, interoperability for clinicians and patient care-related research and innovation.
As the group accurately notes, the US healthcare system has transformed itself into a digital industry at astonishing speed, largely during the past five years. Nonetheless, many healthcare organizations haven’t unlocked the value of these new tools, in part because their technical infrastructure is largely a collection of disparate systems which don’t work together well.
The paper, which is published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, offers several policy recommendations intended to help health IT better support value-based health, care and research. The paper argues that governments should implement specific policy to:

Enable patients to have better access to clinical data by standardizing data flow
Improve access to patient-generated data compiled by mHealth apps and related technologies
Engage patients in research by improving ways to alert clinicians and patients about research opportunities, while seeing to it that researchers manage consent effectively
Enable patient participation in and contribution to care delivery and health management by harmonizing standards for various classes of patient-generated data
Improve interoperability using APIs, whi...

Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 17, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: CCHIT Certification Certified EHR Clinical Decision Support Digital Health Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Technology Health Information Governance Healthcare Healthcare Interoperability HealthCare IT Hos Source Type: blogs