Healthcare Innovation September 23, 2019
Major industry associations have detailed the concerns they have with ONC’s proposed rule on interoperability and patient access issued earlier this year
A group of prominent healthcare industry associations is asking Congress to leverage its oversight of the 21st Century Cures Act to ensure that the federal government improves its proposed rules on interoperability and patient access that it released earlier this year.
In February, federal officials from the CMS (the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and the ONC (the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT) released proposed regulations designed to further advance the nation’s healthcare interoperability progress. The proposals have several layers to them, with key elements related to application programming...