Healthcare Innovation July 26, 2019
David Raths

ONC will have to bring along all stakeholders or risk creating interoperability digital divide with voluntary program

It may seem counterintuitive for a Republican administration to be proposing lots of new health IT regulations when they usually tend to take a market-driven approach. Nevertheless, 2019 turns out to be a banner year for regulations, with health system executives responding to three major proposed rules around interoperability and information blocking.

The comment period closed in June on the second draft of the Office of the National Coordinator’s ambitious Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) for connecting health information networks and the creation of a nonprofit Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) to manage the network of networks. Most stakeholders seem to see...

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