Managed Healthcare Executive March 5, 2024
Jared Kaltwasser

Hospitals and healthcare software developers are adjusting to a world in which blocking healthcare data will come with potentially stiff penalties under rules proposed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).

When Congress passed the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016, a major area of emphasis was to make it easier for patients and their healthcare providers to access and utilize the rapidly increasing amount of personal health data. The challenge had two key components: a technical one, which involves making it easier to share data across disparate healthcare information technology (HIT) platforms; and a behavioral one, which involves teaching the industry to unlearn the impulse to keep data under lock and key for privacy...

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