Healthcare DIVE May 10, 2021
There’s broad industry support for revamping the U.S.’ decades-old health privacy law to encourage patient access and care coordination, but provider groups are deeply worried about unintended consequences on the privacy and security of sensitive medical information if it becomes more widely available, implementing the changes during COVID-19 and squaring them with other data blocking regulations.
“We question the need for these changes, particularly at this time,” the American Medical Association wrote in its letter to HHS Office of Civil Rights. The physician group noted practices are currently making major changes to their IT and data exchange processes to come in compliance with two sweeping rules promoting interoperability finalized last year, and continue to face significant overhead from COVID-19.
“We...
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