Becker's Healthcare May 29, 2019
Jackie Drees

The comment period on HHS’ proposed CMS and ONC guidelines to the 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking and the ONC Health IT Certification Program ends June 3.

Under the guidelines, CMS proposed requirements including expanding patient access to medical records and other health information electronically by 2020. Additionally, ONC suggested that the healthcare industry adopt standardized application programming interfaces to provide patients with easier access to their electronic health data as well as information-blocking revisions, among other proposals.

The proposed interoperability rules currently have 799 comments total. The public comment period began March 4 and will close June 3.

Here are five comments pulled from the CMS portal, listed in no particular order:

1. “COMMON SENSE! Rules to...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, CMS, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HHS, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, Payer, Physician, Provider, Technology
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