Fierce Health Payers March 18, 2020
Donald Rucker, M.D., says the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s interoperability rule gives patients greater control over their health data and will drive new business models in healthcare.
Giving patients access to their health data on their smartphones will open up new business models of healthcare, the head of the Trump administration’s health IT policy arm said this week.
On March 9, the Department of Health and Human Services issued two rules, one each by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), that implement interoperability and patient access provisions of the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act.
The ONC’s information blocking rule (PDF) requires...