Managed Healthcare Executive April 1, 2020
CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced final interoperability rules several weeks ago. The new rules are, among other things, supposed to create a standard application programming interface (API) for EHR data and prohibit information blocking. We sent Emad Rizk, MD, president and CEO of Cotiviti several questions about the interoperability rule change. Cotiviti is a healthcare data and finances company headquartered in Atlanta.
How close are we to true interoperability and do the rules bring us closer or further away?
The new rules mandating interoperability are a big step in the right direction for healthcare, but there is still a lot of work to be done. True interoperability has been an industry-wide priority...