HIMSS has written a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell offering to work with HHS and the ONC to revamp the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and assist in developing workable timelines and requirements to help healthcare providers meet government goals.
The three areas HIMSS would like to focus on are making the meaningful use program more achievable (including a 90-day reporting period in 2015), continuing to foster interoperability efforts and making clinical quality measures more relevant and easier to report.
"HIMSS is committed to working with you to identify the programs, help determine how they can interact more effectively and communicate the issues that stakeholders have identified where they need resolution to ensure the success of the individual programs as well as the overall field of health IT," according to the letter.
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