The Consumer Partnership for eHealth, a coalition of advocacy organizations, has issued a framework for CarePlans 2.0, a next generation of health and care plans that embeds patient-centered principles in an electronic environment to improve communication and foster better outcomes.
The Consumer Partnership for eHealth offered it opinion of what is needed for Stage 3, writing, “We believe the ‘Meaningful Use’ EHR Incentive Program offers a significant, unprecedented opportunity to reduce health disparities by addressing not only the multi-faceted needs of individuals and groups, but also the overlapping needs of all populations.
The Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH) is a non-partisan group made up of more than 50 consumer, patient and labor organizations and led by the National Partnership for Women & Families, a group that has been working in health information technology policy since 2005.
According to the National Partnership for Women and Families, 80 percent of patients who have access to their health information through an EHR use it.
“We have the chance to leverage Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use Program to make significant progress in addressing disparities, said Debra L. Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families – the group spearheading the CPeH coalition – in a press statement.
The Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH), a partnership of nearly 50 organizations, and the National Partnership for Women & Families, a patient advocacy group, released a joint Disparities Action Plan, a strategy for using health information technologies, such as electronic health records, and consumer technologies to identify and highlight race- and economic status-related health disparities.
Are the requirements for eligible hospitals and professionals doing enough to help reduce disparities in healthcare? The answer to that question is no although the EHR Incentive Programs do have the potential to do so, claim the authors of a new action plan issued by the Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH).
To jumpstart progress in leveraging federal health information technology (IT) policy to reduce health disparities, the Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH) today released a plan for addressing disparities in Stage 3 of the Electronic Health Record...
Debra L. Ness, president of the consumer advocacy group National Partnership for Women & Families, in a release called Mostashari a “visionary, innovative leader who has done a tremendous amount to put our nation on a path to health care that is coordinated, efficient and patient- and family-centered.”
“One thing patients want is more access,” says Christine Bechtel, who works with the National Partnership for Women and Families…
Fourteen consumer organizations in a joint letter advise six Republican members of the U.S. Senate to not seek to pause or delay the electronic health records meaningful use program.
“We cannot afford to delay bringing America’s health information system into the 21st Century,” said Mark Savage, Director of Health IT Policy and Programs for the National Partnership for Women & Families.
Mark Savage, director of health information technology policy and programs with the National Partnership, takes the consumer’s standpoint in EHR adoption and use — meaning he is a supporter of strengthening, rather than delaying, the meaningful use program.
Changing or delaying Stage 3 of meaningful use would only harm patients, says the Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH) and the Campaign for Better Care (CBC) in response to a recent white paper released by a group of six Republican senators questioning the trajectory of the HITECH Act and the EHR Incentive Program.
To reduce the burden on providers, the work group discussed consolidation of quality measures in an effort to “simplify things but advance them at the same time,” said Christine Bechtel, VP of the National Partnership for Women & Families, who led the subgroup on consolidation.
On March 20, the Health Subcommittee will discuss how technological advancements benefit health care patients and “ways to promote innovations.”
Christine Bechtel — vice president for the National Partnership for Women & Families and a Health IT Policy Committee member — said in a statement that the proposed rule …
Christine Bechtel, Vice President of the National Partnership for Women and Families, explained to me what patients frequently say in focus groups: “I just want my doctors to talk to each other … . I’m tired of showing up in the exam room and being handed that clipboard for the umpteenth time as if I’ve arrived from another planet … . Technology could help me!”
Health IT Business News Roundup for the Week of August 19, 2011 iHealthBeat Christine Bechtel — vice president of the National Partnership for Women and Families and a member of the Health IT Policy Committee — has been named to the editorial …
“You can’t manage care without data,” Ness said at the summit. She added that she believes there will be no massive patient opt out.
