MedCity News June 1, 2023
Recent regulations from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have, respectively, focused on prohibiting information blocking and increasing price transparency. Together, these two regulations have put a third issue into the spotlight as well: Reducing the complexity of clinical terminology.
If organizations present medical records, cost data, and descriptions of billing codes to patients without providing context or stripping out medical jargon, then the information is potentially subject to regulatory penalties. It’s also of little benefit to patients who had hoped to use the information to manage their health or search for medical services.
That means providing more patient-friendly terminology is more than just a compliance checkbox. Increasingly,...
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