HIT Infrastructure May 8, 2019
Contractual and intellectual property rights (IPR) are being used to limit access to electronic health information (EHI) and to prevent competition from developers of healthcare interoperability technologies, warned Donald Rucker, MD, national coordinator for health information technology, during a May 7 Senate hearing.
These barriers frustrate healthcare interoperability and stifle competition and innovation, Rucker said in written testimony submitted to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
To overcome these barriers, Rucker said his office is proposing an exception to the information blocking prohibition that would permit licensing of interoperability elements on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms.
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