Healthcare DIVE July 11, 2024
Emily Olsen

The sweeping rule includes provisions to improve public health data sharing — a serious paint point during the COVID-19 pandemic — boost security in health records and speed prior authorization.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released a sweeping proposed rule Tuesday that includes plans to improve data sharing with public health authorities — a major challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The proposal, called the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability rule, or HTI-2, builds on the agency’s long-term work to improve interoperability and information sharing between providers, payers and the public health ecosystem, said ONC head Micky Tripathi during a press conference Wednesday.

The rule comes months after...

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