Becker's Healthcare June 3, 2019
Jackie Drees

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s EHR Association supports the ONC’s proposed interoperability rule, however, the organization outlined some of its concerns with the proposed legislation.

While HIMSS EHRA favors the proposed rule’s aim to eliminate obstacles to information exchange, the organization said it sees potential issues with the rule’s negative effect on innovation, definitions related to information blocking, short timeline and “ambiguous” language, according to the organization’s blog post.

Four notes:

1. Disincentives for innovation. The EHRA said the proposed rule’s call for a compulsory licensing model for new intellectual property will remove incentives for new and/or established companies to “invest in emerging technologies or any significant effort to update existing ones.”

2. Information blocking definitions are too...

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