Medical Economics April 4, 2019
The Trump administration recently released the much-anticipated proposed rules designed to facilitate interoperability among healthcare systems and stem the harmful practice of information blocking, which occurs when vendors or providers willfully impede the flow of health information.
It was a long time coming. The Health Innovation Alliance (formerly Health IT Now), where I am privileged to serve as executive director, first made the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) aware of these problems plaguing the healthcare system in 2011.
From there, we led the effort to secure inclusion of tough language in the 21st Century Cures law to end information blocking (Section 4004).
While a step in the right...
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