The roundtable must include patients, providers, payors and vendors
What the document says“The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology shall ensure that the participants in the roundtable under subsection (a) include private and public sector stakeholders, including patients, providers (including providers of inpatient services and providers of outpatient services), and representatives of payors, health information exchanges, professional associations, health information technology vendors, health information technology certification organizations, and State and Federal agencies.”
The section requires the roundtable to include private and public sector stakeholders, and names patients, inpatient and outpatient providers, payors, health information exchanges, professional associations, technology vendors, certification bodies, and State and Federal agencies.
What the document actually says“The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology shall ensure that the participants in the roundtable under subsection (a) include private and public sector stakeholders, including patients, providers (including providers of inpatient services and providers of outpatient services), and representatives of payors, health information exchanges, professional associations, health information technology vendors, health information technology certification organizations, and State and Federal agencies.”
The meeting must include many kinds of people. Patients and doctors are named. So are those who pay the bills and those who build the software.
Inpatient care means staying overnight. Outpatient care means going home the same day. Both kinds of provider must be at the table.
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