Health Affairs July 7, 2020
Mark Savage, Aaron Neinstein, Julia Adler-Milstein

On May 1, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published landmark regulations to improve health data access and interoperability for patients, providers, and app developers, using a standardized application programming interface (API) infrastructure. This new rule implements provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016. In concept, the regulations take a giant leap forward. In practice, they might fall short of the nation’s goals. How will we know? How can we spot gaps and make timely corrections?

Regulations drive behavior change when markets and actors are not meeting policy objectives. In this case, those objectives include exchange and use of electronic health information without special effort and patient access to electronic health information in...

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