Becker's Healthcare March 9, 2020
Jackie Drees

HHS on March 9 finalized two interoperability rules that will give patients secure and free access to their health data.

The two rules, issued by ONC and CMS, support the MyHealthEData Initiative and 21st Century Cures Act. Click here to view a timeline of Becker’s Hospital Review’s coverage of the rules since they were first proposed in February 2019.

Seven things to know about the finalized rules:

1. The ONC final rule pinpoints necessary activities that do not constitute information blocking and establishes new regulations to prevent information blocking practices by providers, health IT developers, health information exchanges and health information networks.

2. Under ONC’s new rule, EHR users will be able to share health records data in formats...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, CMS, Cures Act, Cybersecurity, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Privacy / Security, Provider, Regulations, Technology, Trends
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