Fierce Healthcare December 9, 2019
Heather Landi

Epic CEO Judy Faulkner is interviewed by Robert Grossman, M.D., NYU Langone Health CEO and Dean, NYU Grossman School of Medicine during the Forbes Healthcare Summit.

Judy Faulkner, the CEO of electronic health records giant Epic, has big concerns that an upcoming federal interoperability rule will undermine patient privacy.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) interoperability and information blocking rule, which is now under federal review, will have the unintended consequence of sharing family members’ health data without their consent, Faulker said during the Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York City last week.

ONC’s information blocking rule defines the demands on healthcare providers and EHR vendors for data sharing, outlines exceptions to the prohibition against information...

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