Briefing Congress On The Importance Of Interoperability

By Stephen Nuckolls, Allscripts

Editor’s note: On June 7, 2016, Allscripts client Stephen Nuckolls, CEO of Coastal Carolina Health Care (New Bern, North Carolina, U.S.A.), was a panelist at a Congressional briefing on interoperability hosted by the EHR Association. This blog post shares some of his comments at the briefing, which covered successes and areas for improvement with health information technology.

It’s an honor to share with Congress a first-hand account of how we’ve used electronic health records (EHRs) to reduce spending and improve quality. Our medical group, a practice with 45 physicians mostly specializing in primary care, operates a Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable Care Organization (ACO) that has about 11,000 attributed beneficiaries.