Fierce Health Payers April 2, 2020
The Pew Charitable Trusts is calling for federal policymakers to move forward with data-sharing regulations in light of increased use of virtual care during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Any further delay in the interoperability rules timeline “impedes critical benefits to patients,” Ben Moscovitch, project director, health IT at The Pew Charitable Trusts, wrote in an April 2 letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar.
“The new regulations to promote data sharing play an essential role in ensuring continuity of care for patients and should be implemented without delay,” he wrote in the letter published today.
The organization’s call for HHS to expeditiously enforce the regulations is in sharp contrast to many other groups that have voiced...
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