Becker's Healthcare June 27, 2019
The Pew Charitable Trusts outlined four ways to enhance the ONC’s interoperability rule proposal, which aims to increase data sharing between EHR systems as well as streamline access for patients and providers to medical records.
While Pew did suggest opportunities to improve the rule, the agency also highlighted the following positive initiatives of the proposal: using application programming interfaces to improve health data interoperability between separate EHR systems and requiring EHRs to make physician’s clinical notes available to share. Pew also favored implementing Medicare penalties to hospitals and medical practices that do not meet the requirements of the rule two years after its finalization and setting specific criteria for EHRs used in pediatric care.
Here are Pew’s four suggestions to...
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