Health IT and Payment Reform Update

How successful has the Affordable Care Act been in leveraging health information technology and payment reform? During a presentation in April at the New York State HIMSS Chapter conference, Frank Winter, partnership manager for the regional office of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in New York, said that healthcare IT is at the core of several initiatives that have shown promise in improving care quality while reducing costs. The group is a state chapter of the national Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), based in Chicago.

How successful has the Affordable Care Act been in leveraging health information technology and payment reform? During a presentation in April at the New York State HIMSS Chapter conference, Frank Winter, partnership manager for the regional office of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in New York, said that healthcare IT is at the core of several initiatives that have shown promise in improving care quality while reducing costs. The group is a state chapter of the national Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), based in Chicago.

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