Modern Healthcare June 11, 2019
Jessica Kim Cohen

Tech giants Apple and Microsoft recently wrote the CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to weigh in on their companion interoperability and information-blocking proposals, overwhelmingly voicing support for the two rules.

Apple, unsurprisingly, was enthusiastic about the agencies’ effort to connect patients with their health data via third-party apps.

Apple has already taken steps toward this goal with its health records project, which is live at hundreds of hospitals and clinics and allows patients who visit participating providers to access their health data on the iPhone Health app. That integration is made possible through application programming interfaces that link the provider’s EHR and the patient’s iPhone.

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