Health Information Exchange (HIE) includes systems and processes to share data regarding patients, providers and health care services among authorized parties to support care processes, clinical process improvement, research, and accountability.
Ron Klar, MD, MPH is a health care consultant with a long history of involvement in federal health care policy and health plan innovation. He published a recent series of three posts regarding the draft rules for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) in the Health Affairs Blog, an influential forum for debating health policy issues.
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Today I attended a webcast sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization “committed to the art of principled compromise.” The webcast featured Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, the newly appointed National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was joined in a panel discussion by Senators Tom Daschle (Democrat, South Dakota) and Bob
