New HHS rule aims to ease and improve data sharing
Becker's Healthcare July 10, 2024
HHS has proposed a new rule to improve healthcare data and how it’s shared among providers, public health agencies and payers.
The Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability rule aims to make it easier for different parts of the healthcare system to exchange information seamlessly, according to a July 10 news release from HHS.
The new rule would offer new standards for health IT systems used in public health and by payers. These standards seek to ensure that data can flow smoothly among healthcare providers, public health agencies and insurance companies. They also focus on using standardized methods to connect different systems, like application programming interfaces , to improve how data...