Medscape June 7, 2019
Ken Terry

The battle over proposed new government rules on interoperability and information blocking escalated to a higher level on June 4 as all six previous national coordinators of health information technology joined the current national IT coordinator, Donald Rucker, MD, in calling for the adoption of the regulations, according to a post on Health Affairs Blog.

Meanwhile, a broad array of industry groups, including associations representing physician practice administrators, electronic health record (EHR) developers, insurance companies and other parties, presented critical comments to the government agencies that drafted the rules.

The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), for example, said in its letter to Rucker, “We urge ONC [Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT] to avoid pushing physician practices too...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, CMS, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Technology
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