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      HHS Launches Health IT Collaborative

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      M.L. Baker
      Published June 6, 2005
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        Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt announced Monday the formation of a “national collaboration” to create a technical standard by which disparate health information technologies would be able to communicate.

        Leavitt will chair the 17-member American Health Information Community charged with accelerating a nationwide transition to networked electronic health records.

        Health care costs now represent about 15 percent of the GDP, said Leavitt, thats three times the percentage in 1960.

        While much of the increase is due to new technologies, economists estimate that about a third of the health care spent is wasted in services like redundant tests.

        For health IT to decrease this waste, Leavitt said, the industry needs to share information so providers can better assess what services a patient needs.

        Sharing information requires shared standards, and these standards should come from government-led “guided collaboration” rather than from government mandate or the “last vendor standing” in a competitive marketplace.

        Scott Wallace, head of the National Alliance for Health Information Technology (the Alliance), a consortium of health care payers, providers and technology vendors, said the move was “an unprecedented level of engagement by a Cabinet secretary in fundamental technology,” and that his involvement might hasten the development of standards by taking them out of a business and policy vacuum.

        /zimages/3/28571.gifClick here to read more about communities launching an experiment to share health-related data.

        “The private sector tends to be pretty slow” at developing standards, said Wallace. “Debates are not occurring between the clinicians and businesses who will use them but the technologists that develop them, and thats not good.”

        At a speech in February, David Brailer, the National Health IT Coordinator, hinted that if the industry failed to adopt common standards, the government would be forced to step in.

        But Rob Seliger, CEO of Sentillion and chair of the interoperability working group at HIMSS (Health Information Management and Systems Society), welcomed Leavitts involvement despite a risk of excessive government involvement.

        “I think he goes into it not with the intent of a heavy hand but with being a catalyst. The fact that hes going to chair it is a monumental step for this industry.”

        /zimages/3/28571.gifRead the full story on CIOInsight.com: HHS Launches Health IT Collaborative

        /zimages/3/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest news, views and analysis of technologys impact on health care.

        M.L. Baker
        M.L. Baker
        Monya Baker is co-editor of CIOInsight.com's Health Care Center. She has written for publications including the journal Nature Biotechnology, the Acumen Journal of Sciences and the American Medical Writers Association, among others, and has worked as a consultant with biotechnology companies.

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