MobiHealth News May 31, 2019
A panel of innovators joined Rucker to examine the news and to invite comments in the last few days.
Even as a number of IT organizations pressed the ONC to extend the comment period, and delay the implementation, of its new data sharing and information blocking rules, a group of entrepreneurs gathered in Boston to hear National Coordinator for Health IT Don Rucker discuss those rules and their implications for the innovation community.
At the 2.5-hour event, which also included a panel of innovator perspectives, the new rules weren’t hailed as a panacea; indeed plenty of criticisms were leveled and even acknowledged by Rucker. But the assembled innovators were overwhelmingly opposed to a delay, framing the rules as a strong...