Healthcare IT News March 17, 2020
Health plans will be responsible for data sharing and patient access in a way they’re not used to. “A lot will have to go into meeting that deadline,” one expert says.
Payers and health plans will face challenging deadlines for achieving information exchange under the recently released final rules on interoperability and information blocking.
An organization representing health plans contends that timelines for meeting requirements under the rules will be difficult to achieve, suggesting that the standards needed to achieve data exchange are immature and not proven to support the scale of interoperability that will be needed.
The rules – issued this past week by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – seek to fulfill the interoperability and information...