Healthcare DIVE March 10, 2020
Payers and providers protested the long-awaited HHS rules promoting interoperability that dropped Monday, contending the rules could threaten patient privacy by allowing personal health information to flow to third-party companies not covered under HIPAA.
Healthcare organizations are still digesting the ramifications the 1,700 page rules could have on their business models and bottom lines.
How third-party apps can use patient authorized data was one of the most hotly contested issue in the lead-up to the final rules, with EHR behemoth Epic lobbying fiercely for added privacy guidelines. However, much of the specific language around access for developers didn’t change between the proposed and final rule.
The American Hospital Association, which represents nearly 5,000 hospitals, blasted the rules for failing “to...
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