Mostashari speaks his mind on compliance, EHR, government shortcomings
Farzad Mostashari, MD, MSc, might know a thing or two about the relationship between government regulators and those whom they overlook.
The former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spoke to Politico’s “Pulse Check” podcast, where he pointed out some problems with regulation in healthcare.
“The power of regulations is the fact that we went from 9 percent of hospitals having electronic health records to 95 percent of hospitals," Mostashari said. But the program too often became about the "shortest distance to compliance," he said.
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