Healthcare Innovation November 22, 2019
The ONC/21st Century Cures rule appears to be on the verge of being finalized, but a later timetable could be in store for CMS’ regulation
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) within the White House released its fall 2019 unified agenda earlier this week with some potentially interesting developments around the federal government’s proposed regulations on interoperability and patient access.
Two major proposals from the government released earlier this year—one from CMS (the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and the other from ONC (the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT) are designed to further advance the nation’s healthcare interoperability progress. The two rules are aligned in terms of their broad goals of...