Healthcare DIVE March 13, 2020
HHS has been working on a set of rules meant to expand patients’ access to their medical information for half a decade.
The Trump administration finalized two massive rules to expand patients’ access to their medical information Monday, to applause from patient advocates, scant comment from payers and general wariness from EHR vendors and providers.
CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT proposed the regulations more than a year ago, but they’ve been held up by a fierce national debate on privacy versus consumer agency and a stringent fiscal review from the Office of Management and Budget.
The rules are now final, and the first deadline is in six months. Major EHR vendor Cerner thinks it...
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