HealthLeaders Media August 7, 2023
Former ONC Chief Donald Rucker questions whether federal regulations around interoperability and information blocking are doing more harm than good.
Editor’s Note: Donald Rucker, MD, led the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) from April of 2017 until January of 2021. He is currently an adjunct professor of emergency medicine at Ohio State University and chief strategy officer for digital health software company 1upHealth.
The 21st Century Cures Act, passed almost unanimously by Congress after the 2016 election, included a key principle granting patients the right to direct digital access to their medical record using the apps of their choice.
Importantly, Congress identified two must-haves to allow patients to get that...
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