Healthcare DIVE October 9, 2020
The 21st Century Cures Act is currently scheduled to enter the enforcement phase in July 2021. Its objective is to put patients in control of their own healthcare information, ultimately improving the quality and efficiency of patient care. The new exchange standards were developed to ensure that healthcare organizations increase adoption and promotion of interoperability, exchange healthcare information without blocking access to data, and increase patient access to data.
The final interoperability rule, released in March 2020, outlines the timeliness and framework for healthcare organizations to share patient data.
One area where the Cures Act specifically supports consumers in accessing their data is the requirement that all healthcare organizations support application programming interface (API) access to real-time health data. The...
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