Modern Healthcare August 8, 2018
To help facilitate that, CMS regulators might require providers to share data with patients in a universal electronic format. That move would help thwart so-called information-blockers—providers and vendors who prevent the sharing of patient data.
But news on information-blocking was slim at the forum, where some expected the ONC to announce a rule on the practice.
Instead, regulators and health IT leaders focused on achieving interoperability through FHIR standards, open application programming interfaces and letting patients be the agents of...