Becker's Healthcare October 7, 2024
The American Hospital Association expressed its opposition to parts of a new HHS interoperability rule aiming to facilitate better healthcare data exchange.
Here are six things to know:
1. ONC published the proposed Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability rule Aug. 5 to “advance interoperability, improve transparency, and support the access, exchange, and use of electronic health information.”
2. In an Oct. 4 letter, the AHA said it supports parts of the rule: aligning CMS application programming interface requirements and recommendations; continuing to develop U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) standards; committing to protect patient data; improving public health data interoperability; rolling out the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA); and revising...