Healthcare IT News August 11, 2020
Mike Miliard

While the APIs mandated by the 21st Century Cures Act will eventually enable a more “seamless experience” across the care continuum, he said, state health information exchanges have a crucial role to play in coordinating pandemic response right now.

In his opening discussion Monday at the ONC Tech Forum, which continues all day Tuesday, Dr. Donald Rucker, National Coordinator for Health IT, began by reminding everyone that the starting gun has been fired on ONC’s 21st Century Cures rules on interoperability and patient access.

They were posted in the Federal Register at the beginning of May, “which is that the form of starting point,” said Rucker, during a wide-ranging conversation with Denise Hines, chief Americas officer at HIMSS (the parent...

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