CHIME Submits Comments on 21st Century Cures Initiative

Statement from CHIME Interim Vice President of Public Policy, Leslie Krigstein

ANN ARBOR, MI, May 8, 2015 – CHIME supports the Committee’s bipartisan interest in strengthening our healthcare system to meet our 21st Century needs. Health information technology and electronic health records (EHRs) have the potential to transform care and usher in a new era in healthcare. We hope that the Committee takes seriously the need to prioritize action items that can build on progress made to date, including consistent patient identification, clear standards and a testing environment that enhances the value of ONC’s certification program.

We ask the Committee to be cognizant of the complexities of legislating interoperability. CHIME believes interoperability relative to safe, high quality patient care should remain the focus of any policy changes. CHIME’s top priority remains a national approach to patient identification, an essential component to fostering interoperability and eradicating our industry’s technical barriers.

About CHIME
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 1,400 CIO members and over 140 healthcare IT vendors and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit www.chimecentral.org.

Contact:
Stephanie Fraser
Director of Communications and Corporate Relations, CHIME
734-665-0000
[email protected]