DOTmed August 16, 2019
Matthew Michela

Full interoperability and the unimpeded flow of non-proprietary clinical data are essential to innovation and advances in patient care. Still, despite a variety of efforts over the decades, the otherwise technologically advanced U.S. healthcare system has made only sporadic and partial advances toward that goal. Systems remain isolated and data is blocked.

The interoperability and data sharing provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act were intended to finally change this situation.

The Cures Act and health IT
While the 21st Century Cures Act, passed at the end of 2016, is mostly devoted to funding various medical research, it also contains provisions intended to finally achieve interoperability and prevent data blocking in healthcare.

While Congress passed the Cures...

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