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Subject Term: "Information technology infrastructure"

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Electronic Health Records: HHS Needs to Improve Planning and Evaluation of Its Efforts to Increase Information Exchange in Post-Acute Care Settings
GAO-17-184, Jan 27, 2017
Director: Yocom, Carolyn L
Phone: (202) 512-7114

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Recommendation: To improve efforts to promote EHR use and electronic exchange of health information in post-acute care settings, the Secretary of Health and Human Services should direct CMS and ONC to comprehensively plan for how to achieve the department's goal related to the use of EHRs and electronic information exchange in post-acute care settings. This planning may include, for example, identifying specific actions related to post-acute care settings and identifying and considering external factors.

Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Status: Open

Comments: HHS concurred with this recommendation. As of February 2020, HHS provided information describing actions it has taken to help increase the use of EHRs and electronic information exchange in post-acute care settings. These actions are important, but do not address the comprehensive planning that GAO recommended. To fully implement this recommendation, HHS should provide information to show comprehensive planning for how HHS's specific actions are expected to lead to achieving the goal of increasing the use of EHRs and electronic information exchange in post-acute settings.