Industry cheers spirit but not fine print in HHS interoperability rules

More than 2,800 comments poured in on two wide-reaching HHS rules to promote interoperability and discourage information blocking in healthcare, with industry groups largely lauding the goal but not the means of achieving it.

Health IT groups, providers, payers and other industry stakeholders took issue with much of the fine print in the government’s plan.

“At a core level, the rules do not work,” Joel White, executive director of lobbying group Health Innovation Alliance, said on a press call earlier this month. “ONC and CMS ought to go back to the drawing board.”