Healthcare DIVE August 22, 2019
The Office of the National Coordinator is the country’s health information technology regulator, and, under Donald Rucker’s leadership, has set off some waves.
ONC kicked off a nationwide push towards unfettered electronic data sharing with a proposed rule in February that would penalize healthcare companies for siloing data and give patients free electronic access to their healthcare data in a few short years.
Unsurprisingly, industry had a lot to say on the initiative, blasting ONC as trying to do too much too quickly. But the health IT agency is moving ahead. This week Rucker said ONC is in talks with Congress and the White House on further regulation of third-party health apps cropping up to help consumers make sense of...
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