Sure... All we need is more money spent in a governmental agency to oversee health IT safety. HIPAA already has mounds of cost and regulations adding significant cost to healthcare without significant oversight until someone discovers a breach. As it is, ONC doesn't seem to be able to agree on timing and regulations in their current areas of responsibility... so the solution is to make them responsible for more??? This is NOT how we drive cost out of healthcare to begin to get on par with other 1st world countries and their per capita cost.
Doug - 10 years ago
From the start, ONC has proposed that the Health IT Safety Center be a public-private partnership - i.e. that this wouldn't be something that ONC "runs"
I applaud ONC for at least proposing (and requesting basic funding) a way to bring stakeholders together around this important issue. Hopefully, and this actually has more to do with entities other than ONC than ONC, it will initiate data sharing, collaboration and improvement around what can be done to develop, implement and use health IT in safer ways.
The IOM, among others, identified major shortcomings in its 2010 report of Health IT and Patient Safety.
The alternative, of course, is for industry and other stakeholders to resist collaborative, cooperative, voluntary efforts and to force the FDA, which has regulatory authority, to step in.
If the ONC is in to all of this detailed hIT regulation- they need to have some insight into how it is affecting our patients - and data collection requirements from the caregivers. Maybe if they had responsibility, or were exposed to patient safety concerns, they would weigh the consequences and possible consequences more before they advanced new regulations
Sure... All we need is more money spent in a governmental agency to oversee health IT safety. HIPAA already has mounds of cost and regulations adding significant cost to healthcare without significant oversight until someone discovers a breach. As it is, ONC doesn't seem to be able to agree on timing and regulations in their current areas of responsibility... so the solution is to make them responsible for more??? This is NOT how we drive cost out of healthcare to begin to get on par with other 1st world countries and their per capita cost.
From the start, ONC has proposed that the Health IT Safety Center be a public-private partnership - i.e. that this wouldn't be something that ONC "runs"
I applaud ONC for at least proposing (and requesting basic funding) a way to bring stakeholders together around this important issue. Hopefully, and this actually has more to do with entities other than ONC than ONC, it will initiate data sharing, collaboration and improvement around what can be done to develop, implement and use health IT in safer ways.
The IOM, among others, identified major shortcomings in its 2010 report of Health IT and Patient Safety.
The alternative, of course, is for industry and other stakeholders to resist collaborative, cooperative, voluntary efforts and to force the FDA, which has regulatory authority, to step in.
If the ONC is in to all of this detailed hIT regulation- they need to have some insight into how it is affecting our patients - and data collection requirements from the caregivers. Maybe if they had responsibility, or were exposed to patient safety concerns, they would weigh the consequences and possible consequences more before they advanced new regulations