Healthcare IT News March 9, 2020
National Coordinator Don Rucker and Deputy National Coordinator Steve Posnack talk enforcement timelines, “content and manner,” FHIR 4, gag clause provisions, patient privacy and more.
The long-awaited interoperability and information blocking final rules published by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on Monday will require some big changes to the ways healthcare organizations – specifically providers, certified health IT developers and health information networks and exchanges – have been used to doing things.
The sweeping new regs – which update software certification requirements, mandate APIs usable “without special effort” and put rules in place to combat information blocking and anti-competitive practices – will require some significant cultural adjustments and material investments from healthcare orgs hoping to stay...