Posted on 03/09/2018 5:31:07 AM PST by spintreebob
In an ideal world, providers would be able to spend less time collecting quality data and more time actually improving the quality of care, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar said here Thursday.
"We need to ensure that in the quest for information on quality, we don't have providers, payers or others spend so much time accumulating data to improve reporting that they're not actually improving quality," Azar said during a press briefing with reporters at HHS headquarters.
"Let's make sure it's the information that really matters; let's have the minimal necessary reporting burden to get the job done to ensure we're providing actionable information for decision-makers for quality, price, and value. There have been so many [reporting] burdens, especially for solo practitioners ... If needed, so be it, but let's make sure it serves the purpose."
(Excerpt) Read more at medpagetoday.com ...
The appointments of Tom Price and Jeff Sessions were great disappointments. Maybe we should re-consider promoting good people who have been inside the swamp so long they are immobilized to do anything beyond their former lip service.
>>”Let’s make sure it’s the information that really matters; let’s have the minimal necessary reporting burden to get the job done to ensure we’re providing actionable information for decision-makers...”<<
BLASPHEMY!!!
Does this mean the docs will stop asking patients if they have firearms in their homes? Next, the schools?
Just talking about this yesterday! That was a major part of my role in hospitals as a department director, either answering quality questions for CMS or gathering other data. I recently retired and that was a big part of the reason - the government and Joint Commission kept coming up with more things to review.
Dopes would hire 3 people to create metrics and generate reports that show you're not getting the job done.
I need head count to manage the work load.
"sorry, hiring freeze"...
I am absolutely convinced the reason for the Obama Admin requiring that all medical info be accessible by the Internet, was to use that data for blackmail/coercion. Our medical info USED TO BE sacrosanct. Now everything is out there and no one is accorded the privacy of their medical history. And they used the line ‘we don’t want docs to give you any medication that might interfere with another medication you are on’. Really? Are there people who don’t know what medications they are taking? We should be able to let the docs know what we are taking.......but now EVERYBODY has access to our medical histories and medications.
“Maybe we should re-consider promoting good people who have been inside the swamp so long they are immobilized to do anything beyond their former lip service.”
And then maybe we should simply ask the President not to ever appoint a sitting GOPE Senator. That’s where the problem resides. US Senators are the worst of the lot in the DC Swamp.
As a person who spent 15 years in the medical information industry, I couldn’t agree more. Some of the “requirements” are ridiculous. The cost to the providers of having vendors making software changes dictated by HHS are enormous. Paid for by increasing insurance rates and ultimately the public.
Worthless!
Agree with you totally, I am sure you are familiar in a visceral way with the term “Big Data” which means simply a lot of it. I look at it in terms of the result of a process be it steps from start to finish and the “telemetry” of each collectively tells me what happened, just like that used in race cars and airplanes to tune things in.
Reports are so endemic in the industry while no one really looks at it in a way that it tells them something. Bosses want reports on subordinates so they can call them and badger them into selling more or whatever.
I am chuckling as I type this but it is not really funny as many in this thread reflect this is information about us and there are very strict rules and codes of conduct about how it is gathered, stored and used or shared like HIPPA, Gxp, GDPR etc. I agree the information in the wrong hands can be used in a negative way to deny us goods or services, so many tangents.
The good news is it is and must change and HHS and other Government agencies are turning to the private sector to help solve the problem and untie the gordian knot, I know as I am in that world and my position is to protect the sanctity and rights of the individual are paramount not the Government bureaucrats. I and my associates are directly involved with HHS and other agencies to change the way this all occurs and trust me my fellow freepers it will get better or I will not bend or break and give them ammo to hurt anyone.
And directly to you NativeSon I totally understand, you must at times have felt like you were in the midst of an insane asylum awash in data you were tasked to preserve and manage but that never seemed to really move the needle.
It is changing, big time from where I sit and it is getting better daily. The patients (Government and companies) have realized they have a problem, that is the first step to getting better. There is a way we are going and will follow that helps everyone and makes sense of the non sense
I serve God and that is my yardstick, I will not play in devious schemes and my soul is not for sale. There are millions upon millions of Americans whose very lives are impacted in the Caregiving world I am focused on now and more to come. But they deserve better and they shall have it, I will stop at nothing less.
Sic Semper Tyrannis!
When I go to the Dr., it’s usually a 20 minute appointment, wherein at least half of it is the damned Dr. typing on the computer that now sits in every exam room! Then I go to my “medical records” on-line and see that a lot of it is erroneous. And the other thing is that no diagnosis, is ever removed. Your medical record is like a “roach motel” things go on, but never come off. Under Obola, I was convinced that the game was a “point and figure” effort that told your medical care providers when you were no longer “worthy” of treatment. It’s there to signal when it’s “time for you to go!”
We are friends with a couple who are in their mid 80’s. Recently the wife had a heart valve problem and the “team of doctors” attending to her “decided” that she should just be put in hospice and allowed to die. Only one of the doctors rose to her defense saying that he thought she was strong enough to undergo the surgery and should have a chance at living. That was about six months ago. We had dinner with the two of them last week, and she’s completely recovered, and to look at her, you’d never guess she’s 84. It is a perversion of the Hippocratic Oath what these doctors did (or at least tried to do), but this is what healthcare has devolved into thanks to Obola and Co. It’s simply getting rid of old/sick people and saving a buck so it can go to some illegal alien. When I think about our elected officials, like say that pig Dianne Feinstein, who is in her mid 80’s, and how her doctors wouldn’t think of telling her to go home and die, it makes my blood boil!
The Central Planners really believe that the reason Central Planning failed in the past is that they just did not have enough data and sufficiently powerful computers.
Now, with big data and big computers, they honestly believe that Central Planning will work. The Central Planner will be able to make better decisions for us than we will for ourselves. That is because the Central Planner will finally have all the data.
Until recently I worked as a contract medical provider for the VA. Now I’m back in the private sector thank God! When my former supervisor asked why I was leaving I told her that the VA has finally succeeded in requiring 45 minutes of paperwork for a 30 minute appointment. She was not amused. The truth hurts.
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