Healthcare Technology Regulation: Past, Present and Future – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/18 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Brendan Keeler (@healthbjk) on the topic “Healthcare Technology Regulation: Past, Present and Future.

Regulation. Intended to protect against bad actors and accelerate by ensuring uniformity around best practices, it can stifle innovation and protect incumbents.

Healthcare technology, of all industries, is filled with regulation. Given that US healthcare is heavily fragmented and decentralized (100,000’s of provider organizations and 1000’s of payors), regulation is often the only tool that can deploy a capability or process nationwide and ensure a uniform standard of care.

HIPAA, Meaningful Use, ONC Cures, TEFCA, the constant iterative flow of CMS guidance… we’ve seen and continue to see so much, and the relentless torrent continues unabated.

Join us for this week’s #HITsm chat where we’ll discuss the past, present, and future of healthcare regulation in the US.

Topics for this week’s #HITsm Chat:

T1: HIPAA outlined the set of principles for how we view health data in the US, with paths to enforcement through penalization. Is compliance-oriented regulation, focused on outlining proper behavior and investigating violations, good or bad? #HITsm

T2: Meaningful Use drastically accelerated the use of EHRs, pushing it over the adoption chasm. Is capability-oriented regulation, which incentivizes prescriptive technology adoption, good or bad? #HITsm

T3: ONC Cures is both compliance-oriented (through information blocking provisions) and capability-oriented (through patient access and bulk FHIR API provisions). Which piece will be more impactful? #HITsm

T4: Regulation often entrenches incumbents by eliminating smaller players that cannot waste resources on compliance and by building a barrier to a minimum viable product for new entrants. Is there a risk of this happening with current regulation and existing EHR vendors? #HITsm

T5: This past week, the ONC announced a renewed focus on finishing TEFCA. How do you think this will play out? When will TEFCA be a reality? #HITsm

Bonus: If you were in charge, what regulation or deregulation would you put in place in healthcare technology? #HITsm

Upcoming #HITsm Chat Schedule

6/25 -TBD
Hosted by TBD

7/2 -TBD
Hosted by Dalton Patterson (@MrDollyPat) from @CorroHealth

7/9 – Is Transparency the Most Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare?
Hosted by Sarah Krüg (@sarahkrug1)

We look forward to learning from the #HITsm community! As always, let us know if you’d like to host a future #HITsm chat or if you know someone you think we should invite to host.

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About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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