Hot news from Histalk:"Chip at PCC blogs from this week’s CCHIT meetings. He’s got a lot of interesting observations (changing CCHIT membership, some friction between Mark Leavitt and one of its work groups, [color:#FF0000]dropping the “version lockdown” certification requirement, and disagreement over whether an increase in applicants means CCHIT is doing a good job). Kudos to Bill Zerhellen, MD who said this directly to them: “If our goal is to certify to get ARRA payments, we’re doing the wrong thing. We should be focusing on improving health care.”
Leavitt actually agreed and suggested that perhaps CCHIT’s mission statement should be changed to emphasize outcomes improvement instead of HIT adoption (not exactly an original thought since AMDIS and other groups have pressed CCHIT on that previously). I take that to mean that (a) all the CCHIT criticism and potential competition from other certification agencies has made CCHIT more responsive, or (b) it’s at least awakened a belated need to pretend to be more responsive. "[/color]
URL:
http://histalk2.com/2009/07/18/monday-morning-update-72009/So it seems that the CCHIT version lockdown that I mentioned earlier may be lifted. So if AC version 5 becomes version 6 in a matter of months, it'll still be certified if these changes are implimented.
Focusing on outcomes rather than
eliminating competition HIT adoption is also a long sought after and welcome change. The question remains- will these changes be enough to avert the marginalization of CCHIT? I personally don't think so...
Al
