Healthcare Innovation October 17, 2019
Payers appear to be more prepared than providers, but nearly 1 in 5 survey respondents said they know nothing about the Cures Act
Many senior healthcare executives lack familiarity with the federal government’s proposed rules designed to improve interoperability and patient access to data that were released earlier this year, according to a new report.
A centerpiece of the 21st Century Cures Act, which became law in 2016, are new regulations designed to help drive increased efficiency and transparency in healthcare through a variety of measures, including preventing information blocking and expanding how patients can access their healthcare information. Organizations that do not comply with the new regulations—which apply to essentially any organization handling patient...