AMIA Public Comments

In comments submitted to CMS last week, AMIA strongly supported the agency’s effort to provide patients, providers, and payers improved access to certain data through modern API standards and policies to enable such access. However, it also cautioned that CMS should reevaluate the proposed implementation timeline and seek to include […]

In response to a Request for Information (RFI) from the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), AMIA reminded the Office that to best leverage novel technologies for chronic disease management, there must be a recognition that care delivery models should evolve in parallel with advancements in technology […]

In comments delivered to the NIH’s National Library of Medicine (NLM), AMIA highlighted informatics-driven efforts to develop standards to facilities use of clinical data for research, foster computable and executable knowledge artifacts and a knowledge ecosystem, and advance how scholarly contributions are recognized. Beyond these efforts, AMIA encouraged NLM to […]

In comments submitted last week to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), AMIA strongly supported CMS’s expansion of reimbursement for telehealth and other communications technology during the pandemic, MIPS Value Pathways (MVP) framework changes that would seek to leverage digital quality measures. It also provided detailed comments on a […]

In comments submitted to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC),  AMIA recommended that the agency subject username/password information to its Health Breach Notification (HBN) Rule and expand its purview to provide warning to health apps that provide inadequate transparency into its data use, reuse, and exchange. AMIA further urged FTC to address […]

AMIA and ACMI have released the following letter recommending the July 10, 2020, memo, “COVID-19 Guidance for Hospital Reporting and FAQ,” be rescinded, and hospitals continue reporting COVID-19 capacity and utilization data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).

In response to a Senate HELP Committee white paper on preparing for the next pandemic, AMIA made several suggestions on ways Congress can improve the nation’s data-driven public health surveillance ecosystem. AMIA urged Congress to address limited connectivity between health care systems and public health systems for better surveillance and […]

In comments filed with CMS last week, AMIA wrote that while it supports proposals to provide hospitals with flexibilities in how they comply with the Promoting Interoperability Program, it also strongly urges CMS to consider how it can leverage this and other programs to help mitigate and recover from the […]