HIT Infrastructure September 24, 2019
Fred Donovan

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) along with six other healthcare organizations are warning that the proposed the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) information blocking rule could jeopardize healthcare interoperability efforts by increasing health data privacy risks.

In a Sept. 23 letter to Congress, the groups advocated for changes to the proposed rule out of concerns of inappropriate data disclosures that could hinder patient care.

Other groups signing the letter included the American Medical Informatics Association, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, the Federation of American Hospitals, the Medical Group Management Association, and Premier.

The associations supported certain provisions of the ONC’s proposed rule, such as the adoption of application programming interface standards,...

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