I don't work in healthcare but I do use their services and every intake interaction is the same paperwork dance, so it doesn't seem to have impacted providers themselves.
There's another element that needs address as well, which is the controlled dissemination of one's medical history. It should be easy peasy technology wise, with the only blockers being political/entrenched players sabotaging it.
You are perhaps thinking of the HITECH Act of 2009? The Obama administration didn't directly fund any open-source healthcare software. There were billions in federal grant funding available to provider organizations to purchase EHR software that met certification criteria for a certain level of interoperability and clinical functionality. This really accelerated the growth of commercial EHR vendors like Epic, as well as some smaller vendors that used FOSS within their offerings.
I recall various tech/data initiatives during that admin and my search came up with this: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/hhs-announces-ne...
I don't work in healthcare but I do use their services and every intake interaction is the same paperwork dance, so it doesn't seem to have impacted providers themselves.
There's another element that needs address as well, which is the controlled dissemination of one's medical history. It should be easy peasy technology wise, with the only blockers being political/entrenched players sabotaging it.
You are perhaps thinking of the HITECH Act of 2009? The Obama administration didn't directly fund any open-source healthcare software. There were billions in federal grant funding available to provider organizations to purchase EHR software that met certification criteria for a certain level of interoperability and clinical functionality. This really accelerated the growth of commercial EHR vendors like Epic, as well as some smaller vendors that used FOSS within their offerings.
https://www.hipaajournal.com/hitech-act-meaningful-use/