Modern Healthcare August 21, 2019
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is working with Congress and the White House on ways to help patients understand when their health data is being used for secondary purposes.
“We’ve had a number of rewarding discussions,” Dr. Donald Rucker, chief of the ONC, said during remarks at the agency’s third interoperability forum in Washington, D.C.
Patient privacy has been a particular point of concern for hospital groups as healthcare agencies have ramped up interest in using apps to connect patients with their health data. Application programming interfaces that connect IT systems with third-party apps were key parts of the ONC’s and the CMS’ companion interoperability proposals released in February.