EHR Intelligence February 20, 2020
UCSF Health is the first major health system to openly support HHS and the ONC Interoperability Rule.
Leaders at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF Health) have penned a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar in support of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology’s proposed interoperability rule.
“We support the proposed regulations because open, standardized API access to health data will help patients and providers manage care more effectively and achieve better health outcomes,” wrote the three authors of the letter, which was dated February 18.
The proposed rule aims to drive patient access to and sharing of their electronic health information, allowing them the ability to coordinate...