A Troubling Strategy At Health IT Week
Health IT Week demonstrated a double barrel strategy to segregate patient information from provider information. Providers already have the power to set prices and health IT plays the central role.
By rebranding HIPAA as “Meaningful Consent” and making patients second-class citizens in Meaningful Use Stage 2 interoperability, providers and regulators are working together to keep it that way.
Essential consumer protections such as price transparency or independent decision support are scarce in the US healthcare system. The journalists are shouting from the rooftops.
There’s $1 Trillion (yes, $3,000 per person per year) of unwarranted and overpriced health services steering the Federal health IT bus with an information asymmetry strategy. Those of us that want to see universal coverage succeed need the information transparency tools to drive for changes.
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- Blue Button Plus
- Consumer Health IT Summit
- Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Direct
- fixed prices
- Health Information Exchange (HIE)
- health information technology (HIT)
- Health IT Week
- healthcare
- healthcare costs
- HIPAA Treatment Payment and Operations (TPO)
- interoperability
- Meaningful Consent
- Meaningful Use (MU)
- Model Notice of Privacy Practices
- patient engagement
- privacy
- regulation
- The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- transparency
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