Progress report on federal healthcare IT goals
HHS releases progress report on federal healthcare IT goals
Healthcare IT News
By Bernie Monegain, Editor
01/24/07
WASHINGTON – Since 2004, the United States has made strides toward automating its healthcare system, according to a report released Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services. The report details HHS accomplishments toward the goal of healthcare automation that President Bush first called for in his 2004 State of the Union Address, reiterated in his 2005 speech and again in the State of the Union Address Tuesday night.
“In 2006, HHS achieved several major milestones to meet the president’s call for most Americans to have access to electronic health records by 2014,” HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt stated in the report. “These significant accomplishments will provide tangible value to healthcare consumers – helping to reduce costs and medical errors with better information technology.”The report casts 2004 as “laying the foundation,” and 2005 as initial steps and progress.” HHS lists “major accomplishments” in 2006 and spells out some goals for 2007. Among the accomplishments: • Recommendations delivered by the American Health Information Community having to do with consumer empowerment, chronic care, electronic health records and bio-surveillance. • Standards harmonization that form the basis of interoperability• President Bush’s Executive Order on value-driven care• EHR certification developed by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology• Changes to regulations to allow hospitals or other healthcare organizations to donate healthcare IT to physicians• Healthcare IT adoption measurement – working with George Washington University, HHS conducted a physician survey to establish a baseline for measuring healthcare IT adoption. “These accomplishments will encourage broad, standards-based adoption of health IT that will improve the health and healthcare of all Americans,” according to the HHS report. “Already, the markets are responding to federal leadership.”Looking forward, the report cites the upcoming demonstrations of four prototype architectures for development of a nationwide health information network and work by the American Health Information Community workgroups on matters of privacy and security, quality and personalized healthcare.
Healthcare IT News
By Bernie Monegain, Editor
01/24/07
WASHINGTON – Since 2004, the United States has made strides toward automating its healthcare system, according to a report released Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services. The report details HHS accomplishments toward the goal of healthcare automation that President Bush first called for in his 2004 State of the Union Address, reiterated in his 2005 speech and again in the State of the Union Address Tuesday night.
“In 2006, HHS achieved several major milestones to meet the president’s call for most Americans to have access to electronic health records by 2014,” HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt stated in the report. “These significant accomplishments will provide tangible value to healthcare consumers – helping to reduce costs and medical errors with better information technology.”The report casts 2004 as “laying the foundation,” and 2005 as initial steps and progress.” HHS lists “major accomplishments” in 2006 and spells out some goals for 2007. Among the accomplishments: • Recommendations delivered by the American Health Information Community having to do with consumer empowerment, chronic care, electronic health records and bio-surveillance. • Standards harmonization that form the basis of interoperability• President Bush’s Executive Order on value-driven care• EHR certification developed by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology• Changes to regulations to allow hospitals or other healthcare organizations to donate healthcare IT to physicians• Healthcare IT adoption measurement – working with George Washington University, HHS conducted a physician survey to establish a baseline for measuring healthcare IT adoption. “These accomplishments will encourage broad, standards-based adoption of health IT that will improve the health and healthcare of all Americans,” according to the HHS report. “Already, the markets are responding to federal leadership.”Looking forward, the report cites the upcoming demonstrations of four prototype architectures for development of a nationwide health information network and work by the American Health Information Community workgroups on matters of privacy and security, quality and personalized healthcare.
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