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.
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!
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.