HIT Perspectives is POCP’s account of top health IT trends, significant healthcare events, federal policies and industry activities.
HIT Perspectives is POCP’s account of top health IT trends, significant healthcare events, federal policies and industry activities.
Each article provides analysis and insights based on POCP’s unique views and in-depth expertise on cross-cutting issues affecting payers, pharma, vendors and providers.
HIT Perspectives (February 2025)
CMS-0057, Prior Authorization and the Path Forward: How to Align Compliance, Innovation and Strategic Value| Why Now Is the Time to Solve Consent Management in Healthcare | Cleaning Up Healthcare’s Data Diet: From Junk to Quality Insights
HIT Perspectives (December 2024)
Looking Forward – and Backward – to Predict Health IT Under Trump 2.0| Reflecting on 2024’s Top 5 Milestones: A Year of Progress in Health IT | Turning up to 11: Playlist for 2025 Health IT Trends
HIT Perspectives (September 2024)
Unlocking the Power of Preapproval Information Exchange: A Game-Changer for Pharma Manufacturers by Including EHR Readiness| HHS Strategy and Health IT: Policy Layering, Agency Alignment and Strategic Compliance | The Untapped Potential of Pharmacy Interoperability for Payers
HIT Perspectives (June 2024)
Cutting Through the AI Hype in Healthcare: A Realistic Examination| Empowering Life Sciences: Leveraging APIs for Enhanced Interoperability and Innovation in Healthcare | Payer Interoperability – The People Part of It
HIT Perspectives (February 2024)
Healthcare’s Next Frontier: CMS Final Rule Signals a Paradigm Shift in Prior Authorization and Interoperability | Unleashing the Power of Digital Health: Transformative Life Sciences Strategies for Enhanced Patient Outcomes | Unlocking Healthcare’s Data with a National Network: TEFCA’s Game-Changing Impact on Providers, Patients and Payers
HIT Perspectives (November 2023)
20 Years of Health IT Wisdom: 2023 Trends & Charting the Course for 2024 | Advancing Pharmacy Practice: Bridging Policy, Value-Based Care Models, Technology and Health Equity | Navigating the Nexus: Deciphering the Interplay of Federal and State Health IT Policies
HIT Perspectives (August 2023)
Unleashing AI in Healthcare: Transformations, Triumphs, and Turmoil | Life Sciences’ Next Opportunity: Supporting Clinical Champions with EHR Optimization | Advancing Pharmacogenomics (PGx) and Realizing Its Clinical Promise Through Standards & Administrative Workflow
HIT Perspectives (May 2023)
Pharmacy Interoperability – The Next Frontier Advancing Patient Care | Everyone’s Talking About Health Equity – But Are They Speaking the Same Language? | Gaining Momentum with FHIR Through FAST
HIT Perspectives (January 2023)
2023 Brings Unprecedented Opportunities to Shape the Future of Interoperability via Policy Making |Policy, Standards & Implementations: Where the Rubber Hits the Road| TEFCA is Gaining Momentum: Pay Attention & Get Engaged
HIT Perspectives (November 2022)
2022 Recap & Look at the Future of Health IT |Payers & FHIR: Seeing the Forest for the Trees | Staying Ahead of EHR Rules & Regulations for 2023
HIT Perspectives (August 2022)
Paying Attention to “What’s Next” in Health Tech: Life Sciences Companies Are Poised to Drive Change |eConsent: The Key to Interoperability’s Next Big Step | Interoperability Investments Pay Off When Planned and Properly Prioritized
HIT Perspectives (April 2022)
5 Things to Know About Medical Cost Transparency & It’s Impact on Payers, Providers & Patients | A Primer on Health Equity | Take-aways from HIMSS & VIVE
HIT Perspectives (January 2022)
6 Health IT Trends to Pay Attention to in 2022 | 5 Ways to Drive Adoption and Help Unleash the Power of Health Care Data | EHR Extension Apps May Be One Key to Better Supporting the Treatment of Complex Conditions
2021
HIT Perspectives (November 2021)
Leveraging EHRs to Close Gaps in Care and Improve Quality | Interoperability: 10 Reasons Why Payer Top Executives Must Be Involved | The Increasingly Consequential Role of eConsent for Everyone. Yes, Everyone.
HIT Perspectives (August 2021)
How Pharma Can Help Providers Meet New Patients Experience | Quashing Myths That Obstruct Implementation of FHIR APIs | Why It’s Essential to Set Specialty ePrescribing on FHIR
HIT Perspectives (May 2021)
10 Ways to Increase Adoption of Electronic Prior Authorization |Stakeholders Convene to Facilitate Electronic Advanced Care Planning|Moving Forward with the FHIR at Scale Taskforce
HIT Perspectives (January 2021)
Health IT Under a Biden Administration: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution? |Six Under-the-Radar Trends You Should Be Thinking About in 2021|Pulling Back the Covers on HIEs, Part 2: Where are They Going and Why
2020
HIT Perspectives (September 2020) – 
Achieving Patient-Specific Price Transparency by Unlocking EHR Data | Tapping Pharmacy Infrastructure and Clinical Services in a Changing World | Pulling Back the Covers on Health Information Exchanges: Part 1
HIT Perspectives (June 2020) –
Innovations in Formulary, Benefit and Eligibility To Transform the Point of Care Experience | Four Factors Driving the Momentum of Telehealth Adoption That Will Continue After the COVID-19 Crisis | Post COVID-19: Five Things That Will Come Roaring Back With a Twist
HIT Perspectives (April 2020) –
The Critical Role of Health IT in Fighting COVID-19 | Five Predictions on How the COVID-19 Crisis Will Transform Health IT | Take Note of the Health IT Opportunities Emerging From the Final Interoperability Rules of ONC and CMS
HIT Perspectives (February 2020) –
Top 2020 Health IT Predictions: Opportunities Abound | How Payers and Providers Can Succeed in Value-Based Care | FAST: The Coalition Aiming to Strengthen the FHIR Interoperability Infrastructure
2019
HIT Perspectives (December 2019) –
Four Reasons to Become a FHIRmacy | Five Key Ingredients for Successful Multistakeholder Initiatives | Digital Therapeutics: Transforming Care Through Technology
HIT Perspectives (September 2019) –
Lack of Training is Core Cause of Physician EHR Usability Complaints | ePA 2.0: Taking Electronic Prior Authorization to the Next Level | How Artificial Intelligence Is Poised to Transform Medication Management
HIT Perspectives (June 2019) –
Breaking Through Barriers to Advancing Electronic Prior Authorization | CDS Hooks Can Use FHIR APIs to Trigger Robust Decision Support in EHRs | Five Trends Leading the Digital Transformation of Specialty Pharmacy
HIT Perspectives (March 2019) –
CARIN Alliance – Multisector Coalition Strives to Connect Patients to Medication Costs | 8 Impressions from HIMSS 2019 | 10 Thoughts About the New Proposed Rules from ONC and CMS
HIT Perspectives (January 2019) –
Legislation, Proposed Rules and Part D Guidance to Affect Electronic Prescribing and EHRs | 14 Health IT Game Changers | What Version 4 of FHIR Standard Means for Adoption and Innovation
2018
HIT Perspectives (November 2018) –
Connecting Patients With the Costs of Their Medications | High Impact: Opioid Legislation Effects ePrescribing, ePA and PDMPs | Looking Back at 2018 Predictions: How’d We Do?
HIT Perspectives (September 2018) –
Six Interoperability Trends to Watch | The Time Is Right for Electronic Medical Prior Authorization | Improving Drug Price Transparency: Progress and Opportunities
HIT Perspectives (June 2018) –
Improving Drug Price Transparency: The Case for Out-of-Pocket Drug Cost Information at the Point of Prescribing | NCPDP Forms Specialty Pharmacy Work Group |Thumbs Up at this ePrescribing Checkpoint!
HIT Perspectives (April 2018) –
10 Takeaways from HIMSS18 | The Da Vinci Project: Helping Payers and Providers Get the Most From Value-Based Care | The Impact of Cost on EPCS Adoption
HIT Perspectives (January 2018) –
Trends to Watch in 2018 | Fighting a Root Cause of the Opioid Epidemic: New POCP Report Examines State Responses to Opioid Prescribing | Virtual Visits: Now Coming to Your Home, Doctor and Pharmacy
2017
HIT Perspectives (November 2017) –
Following What the Doctor Ordered: Addressing Medication Noncompliance | The Impact of New, Nonproprietary Naming Convention for Biologics and Biosimilars: 7 Key Findings | ONC to Significantly Scale Back EHR Certification and Enrollment
HIT Perspectives (September 2017) –
Five Health IT, Opioid-Related Trends Impacting Electronic Health Records | Interoperability
and Standards Will Be Areas of Focus Through Year End | Automating Enrollment for Specialty Prescriptions
HIT Perspectives (June 2017) –
HHS Moves Ahead in Personnel and Health IT | New Model Can Help Payers Realize Return on Investment From Electronic Prior Authorization | State Lawmakers Focus on ePA and Opioid Abuse
HIT Perspectives (April 2017) –
Eight Takeaways from HIMSS 2017 | FHIR Sets the Stage for Targeted Applications for Payers and Providers | Stakeholder Impacts of the AMA’s Prior Authorization Reform Proposal
HIT Perspectives (February 2017) –
10 Trends to Watch in 2017 | What the 21st Century Cures Act Means for Health IT | PDMPs Take on Renewed Importance as a Tool in the Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic
2016
HIT Perspectives (November 2016) –
A National Patient Identifier: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Again | Taking ePrescribing to the Next Level with the Structured and Codified Sig | Legislative Changes to I-STOP: Are They a Good Thing?
HIT Perspectives (September 2016) –
Taking Electronic Prior Authorization to the Next Level | Using Health Information Technology to Improve Patient Engagement | Surescripts Issues Its 2015 National Progress Report
HIT Perspectives (June 2016) –
New Proposed Regulation Rebrands and Retools Meaningful Use | Real-Time Benefit Inquiry: A New Kind of Clinical Decision Support | Top 10 Themes at Health Datapalooza 2016
HIT Perspectives (April 2016) –
Ten Takeaways from HIMSS16 | Integrating EHRs and PDMPs: How Vendors Can Get Ahead of the Curve | Alerting Prescribers for Biosimilar Substitution to Protect Patient Safety
HIT Perspectives (February 2016) –
Top Ten Health IT Trends for 2016 | Meaningful Use: Not Entirely Gone But Certainly Not Forgotten | Cutting Through the Confusion Surrounding Electronic Formulary and Benefit Checks
2015
HIT Perspectives (September 2015) –
Taking Clinical Decision Support to the Next Level: A Standards-Based Approach | Paving the Way for Specialty ePrescribing | Better Formulary and Benefit Information Pay Off for Payers
HIT Perspectives (June 2015) –
Information Blocking: A Hot Potato in Washington | DERF-a-Palooza at May NCPDP Meeting Yields Results | Surescripts Issues 2014 National Progress Report
HIMSS15: On FHIR and 6 Other Key Takeaways | The Impact of MU Stage 3 on Patient Engagement | Meaningful Use Stage 3: What Does It Mean for EHR Vendors?
HIT Perspectives (February 2015) –
At Last! A Compelling Business Case for Interoperability | Exciting Changes Ahead in 2015 for HealthIT | Interoperability, Value-Based Care and the War on Painkillers to Drive E-Prescribing for Controlled Substances
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