MedCity News August 11, 2020
Whether it’s solving a gap in care problem, or a payer/doctor connectivity problem there will always be individual use cases where multisided platforms (or health information exchanges) can and should connect to solve for information exchange at scale.
With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) release of its final interoperability and information blocking rules, providers, payers and technology vendors are no longer off the hook when it comes to giving patients safe and secure access to their electronic health data.
The rules, which fulfill provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act, serve an undoubtedly worthwhile purpose. Unfortunately, these rules, along with some of the other steps the government is taking to improve data sharing and interoperability (TEFCA,...