Uncomplexifying "Meaningful Use" in Healthcare IT for Practitioners - January 11, 2010
Orlando Florida -- With the long-awaited release of HHS’ proposed “meaningful use” guidelines for health IT, many of the nation’s healthcare practitioners will be focusing for quite some time on how, or even whether, they can meet federal requirements in order to qualify for the incentive payments promised under the HITECH provisions of the ARRA, says Brian J. McCarthy, CEO of Sencilo HealthIT Solutions and well known speaker on the subject.
But as healthcare providers work to align their IT systems with the expectations of federal policymakers, those same policymakers need to keep testing those expectations against the reality of what is taking place across the healthcare sector, says McCarthy.
Two recent stories point to the need for policymakers to remain flexible when it comes to the HIT puzzle.
First is the announcement of a report by the Center for Studying Health System Change which points to a gap “between policymakers’ expectations that electronic medical records can improve coordination of patient care and clinicians’ real-world experiences. . .”
According to the study, there are a number of areas where providers feel the design of EMRs need to be improved if they are to have the effect policymakers are after. For example, as currently configured, “EMRs may have unintended consequences for care coordination, such as creating information overload that complicates providers’ efforts to discern key clinical information.”
Meanwhile, other observers are commenting on trends in the implementation of EMRs which may ultimately impede progress toward the goal of using new health IT to improve patient care.
Specifically, this former CIO has noticed a move within hospitals away from catering to the IT goals of specific departments and toward a “one-size-fits all” mentality which may or not improve the overall care provided.
An undertaking as large as moving an entire sector toward a new generation of technology is bound to move, at best, in fits and starts. That said, however, federal policymakers hoping to encourage and enhance a sector-wide shift need to remain mindful of what change really looks like on the ground.
Otherwise, they’ll be making policy for the world as they wish it were, and not as it really is.
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