Lexology March 17, 2020
Holland & Knight LLP

  • The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on March 9, 2020, released separate but related final rules addressing interoperability, information blocking, patient access to data and electronic health record (EHR) certification criteria.
  • The ONC rule finalizes significant changes to the health information technology (IT) certification program that will require developers to update to their technology.
  • The CMS rule finalizes the agency’s plan to improve access to the clinical, encounter, claims and other types of data that can be shared among patients, plans and federal agencies through Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-standard application programming interfaces (APIs).

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Topics: CMS, Cybersecurity, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, ONC, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Privacy / Security, Provider, Regulations, Technology
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