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HHS' health information technology arm finalized a rule that streamlines the health IT certification program, projecting to save billions in compliance costs. The deregulatory rule is an explicit effort to carry out President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14192 "Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation," according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) within HHS. The rule, called Health Data, Technology and Interoperability: ONC Deregulatory Actions to Unleash Prosperity (HTI-5), is projected to save more than $1.5 billion in regulatory costs, according to ONC. As part of the ONC Health IT Certification Program, developers must certify that their...

Killer Health Care by: Sarah Carlsruh, October 09, 2009 David Goldhill, owner of the Game Show Network, published an article in the September 2009 The Atlantic called “How American Health Care Killed My Father”, and, on October 2nd, discussed the implications of his article in an event hosted by the Cato Institute. Goldhill considers himself “not an expert on health care” but, rather, “like 300 million other people, [a] customer of health care.” Goldhill’s interest in health care was triggered when his father went to the hospital for a case of pneumonia and died, not from the effects of pneumonia,...

Brave New Information Highway by: Heather Latham, April 02, 2009 Because of the inefficient nature of paper records in healthcare, many hospitals and facilities have turned to a computerized system as reform. David Snow, Chairman and CEO of Medco, spoke at a recent AEI event and discussed this topic. He listed three guidelines for reform: • “Keep it simple. If you make it complicated, people don’t understand it. They will reject it;” • “Change has to be evolutionary, not revolutionary. We will not get Big Bang for healthcare reform. We won’t—for two reasons: Big Bang gets everybody up against it...