Healthcare DIVE October 29, 2020
Dive Brief:
- The Trump administration pushed back key deadlines for providers and health IT vendors to comply with sweeping data sharing regulations on Thursday. It’s the second extension this year amid COVID-19, but likely to be the last, according to Don Rucker, head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
- HHS is working to address the pandemic every day and “often into the night,” Rucker told reporters on Thursday. “We do however believe that, in terms of the health IT bandwidth, we believe that this is a one-time event … I would not anticipate any further things here.”
- ONC released an interim final rule Thursday morning extending the deadline for hospitals and EHR vendors to exchange...