Healthcare Finance News March 10, 2020
Health information will be transferred outside the protection of federal privacy laws, with information bought and sold on open market, AHIP says.
Both insurer and hospital organizations have expressed concern that the new interoperability rules released on Monday are a risk to patient privacy.
Two final regulations promote interoperability, health information exchange and patient access to health information. They state that payers and health systems can no longer engage in information blocking and must use an API to give patients access to their data.
America’s Health Insurance Plans said it remains “gravely concerned” that patient privacy will be at risk under the new interoperability rules. Health information will be transferred outside the protections of federal privacy laws, with information bought...
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