Health Care Data Wars: Stretching the Regulations on Information Blocking and The New Burdens of AI
Healthcare IT Today September 18, 2024
The previous article in this series explained how Real Time Medical Systems, Inc. raised the ire of PointClickCare Technologies, Inc. and was prevented from using bots and screen scraping to get access to patient data. Now we’ll see how Real Time responded and look at the new burdens that AI is placing on health care as revealed by the case.
One of the key goals of health care reform, going back to HIPAA in 1996 and particularly the HITECH act of 2009, is to allow the free flow of patient data in a secure and privacy-preserving way. Health care reformers pushed for these bills, knowing that billions of dollars were being wasted while patients were languishing because each health care...