Secretary of Health and Human Services ("HHS") Tommy Thompson unveiled the report of Dr. David Brailer, the national health information technology coordinator, "Decade of Health Information Technology: Delivering Consumer-centric and Information-Rich Healthcare" at a Secretarial Summit on Health Information Technology ("HIT"). Within ten years, the ambitious public-private initiative will achieve four major goals: (1) promote electronic health records ("EHR") in clinical practice; (2) interconnect clinicians; (3) promote "consumer-centric" care; and (4) improve population health. The report listed options to examine to encourage implementation of EHRs. One of the possible options is to update federal physician self-referral and anti-kickback protections to encourage the development of interoperable HIT that "necessarily involves relationships among different providers."
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