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Farzad Mostashari: Regulators Too Cautious, Conciliatory -- And That's Bad For Health Care
The former national coordinator for health information technology talks to Politico about his time overseeing the implementation of electronic health records.
Farzad Mostashari spent two years leading the White House effort to implement electronic health records. Now that he's running his own company — on the other side of those federal regulations — Mostashari sees numerous problems with how government rulemaking works, he told POLITICO this week. "Regulators really, really, really want to get it right," Mostashari said on POLITICO's "Pulse Check" podcast, but they end up being too cautious and conciliatory. And that's bad for health care, he argues, because it protects underperformers and lets them stick around. (Diamond, 5/6)
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