Health IT Analytics October 15, 2018
The healthcare industry may have already passed its interoperability tipping point, throwing upcoming health data blocking rules into question.
Any day now, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) will announce its proposed rule to combat the threat of data blocking – also known as information blocking – in accordance with Congressional directives within the 21st Century Cures Act.
The Cures Act, signed into law by President Obama at the tail end of 2016, warns of steep financial penalties for electronic health record vendors caught in the act of preventing data exchange for competitive or business purposes, and hints at similar punishments for providers engaging in data hoarding behaviors.
But the legislation omitted a few crucial details.
While Congress...
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