Healthcare IT News May 10, 2017
A directive to HHS calls for a national strategy on how patients are matched with their health records. A national strategy to advance standards for matching patients with their own health records is one step closer to reality. Language encouraging HHS to support the development of a national strategy was added to the Congressional FY 2017 Omnibus bill approved by both houses of Congress.
The bill specifies that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and CMS, “provide technical assistance to private-sector led initiatives to develop a coordinated national strategy that will promote patient safety by accurately identifying patients to their health information.”
The new directive changes course after 19 years in which HHS was prohibited...
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