eHI June 23, 2022
Author: Mark J. Segal, PhD., FHIMSS Principal, Digital Health Policy Advisors, LLC
Note: The post was updated on June 23, 2022 to reflect revised regulatory dates in the just released Spring 2022 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.
The summer (and fall) of 2022 promises to bring critical milestones for interoperability and data access, tying together many strands linking back to the 2009 HITECH legislation (i.e., Meaningful Use and its successors) and the 2016 21st Century Cures (Cures) legislation. Community participants with an interest in data sharing and interoperability, including those with regulatory compliance responsibilities, will want to track these events very closely.
One major driver for enhanced data sharing is a set of regulations, both proposed and final,...