To help resolve some of the key interoperability challenges in the health IT industry, several key EHR and provider stakeholders are collaborating to finally make interoperability a viable measurement tool. Convened during the KLAS Keystone Summit in Midway, Utah, Micky Tripathi, President and CEO of Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, led and moderated the summit with EHR stakeholders on how KLAS will publish objective measures of interoperability and ongoing reporting.
Executives who attended the summit has released the following statement:
“On October 2, 2015, a broad group of EHR stakeholders, including vendor CEOs and provider CIOs, agreed by consensus to objective measures of interoperability and ongoing reporting. Leaders of 12 different EHR vendor companies proactively stepped forward to have an independent entity publish transparent measures of health information exchange that can serve as the basis for understanding our current position and trajectory. Assisted by leading provider organizations and informatics experts, these executive officers knocked down barriers to arrive at measures to improve interoperability for the public good. Vendors and providers willingly committed to go arm in arm to work closely with Washington to help alleviate the interoperability-measurement burden faced by the government.”
The 12 EHR-focused CEOs or designated executives that will work with KLAS to help build/shape the measurement and support its use to independently and transparently measure/assess the status and trajectory of interoperability include:
– Allscripts: Assaf Halevy, VP Business Development, Solutions Management
– athenahealth: Jonathan Bush, CEO
– Cerner: Zane Burke, President
– eClinicalWorks: Girish Kumar, CEO
– Epic: Judy Faulkner, CEO
– GE Healthcare: Jan De Witte, President & CEO
– HCIT Greenway: Tee Green, CEO
– Healthland: Chris Bauleke, CEO
– McKesson: Jeff Felton, President
– MEDITECH: Hoda Sayed-Friel, EVP
– MEDHOST: Steve Starkey, VP Product
– NextGen Healthcare: Rusty Frantz, President & CEO
Next Steps
The next step is to put a cohesive plan in place to launch and monitor the measurement. This plan will include continued involvement from those participating in the summit as they lock arms to make a difference.