2011年4月16日星期六

HHS Pushes private to resolve the problems of health

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Slideshow: Healthcare IT Vendor Directory (click the image for a larger view and slideshow) perhaps for fight against conservative critics or perhaps because it is really what they want, federal health it officials continue to call on the private sector to resolve some of the most vexing problems of health care.

"We firmly believe that the private market has certain key responses", Dr Thomas Tsang, Director medical for meaningful use and the quality in the Office of the National Health Information Technology (ONC) Coordinator, said Wednesday at a health meeting in Atlanta hosted by the Institute based in New York for the Transformation of the technology of the health.

His comments echo those of Todd Park, CTO for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). To the South of last month by event interactive Southwest in Austin, Texas, Park told an interviewer that he was not the work of the Government to innovate, but rather to lay the groundwork for the private sector to innovate.

"What we are trying to do, is take advantage of some existing programs, said Tsang, who has already directed implementation of electronic health records (EHR) and the application of health for the disease to health management community center in New York.".

Why? Because health expenditures represent 21% of the administration of Obama proposed budget 2012, somewhere in the range of $ 800 billion. "About one third of that is complete waste," said Tsang.

Tsang, spoke about some of "open the data" initiatives defended by the Park and the Federal Government CTO, Aneesh Chopra, to reach the park called "data liberaci?n" by providing software developers access to vast stores health that is never been fully analyzed information. "I think data analytics is going to be enormous," said Tsang.

He also noted the standards and the interoperability framework, project for pets of Dr. Doug Fridsma, Director of the CNO Office of standards and interoperability. The latter is an effort to convene a wide range of industry stakeholders to harmonize standards and share best practices to improve electronic health data interoperability.

In the field of regulation, Tsang said that HHS has tried to create some similarities between the "meaningful use" EHR incentive program and other rules to make it easier for healthcare entities meet the standards. Measures of 65 quality in the published proposal recently for accountable care organizations, 22 overlap with significant use of phase 1, according to Tsang. "What you see is the alignment across a large number of Federal programs," said Tsang.

He added that there is also on an 80% "fit" between significant use and the National Committee for the model of 2011 to quality patient-centered medical home. "If achieve you meaningful use, you are almost reach the patient-centered medical home recognition" said Tsang.

Tsang, said the Atlanta collection of health it professionals that ONC really could use their help in the realization of what the administration is now call the national strategy for quality - essentially the "triple objective" of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Donald Berwick administrator. (Berwick has long said that health care should improve the health of the population, provide the best care for people and reduce costs.)

Tsang suggests that health it focus on the assessment of risk behaviours of patients editable to increase efficiency and to reduce the returns of the hospital and develop strategies to care for patients with dual Medicare and Medicaid eligibility. "How are you going to take care of patients with chronic disease five or more." Application of Tsang. "How meet you all of these parts."


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