EHR Intelligence January 5, 2021
The Pew Charitable Trusts urged the ONC to implement its information blocking rules on time following a COVID-19 delay.
The Pew Charitable Trusts penned separate letters to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to support patient data exchange through the use of application programming interfaces (APIs).
In its letter to ONC, Pew and 13 other organizations urged the agency to not further postpone its information blocking and health IT certification rules, which were delayed in October 2020 due to COVID-19.
The ONC final rule requires medical providers and device developers to promote patient data access using APIs and third-party apps.
APIs aim to boost interoperability...
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