Managed Healthcare Executive October 20, 2019
Most technology executives polled in the United States are relatively unfamiliar with a key federal law requiring greater patient access to healthcare records and the sharing of such records across health networks, according to new research findings from Accenture.
A centerpiece of the 21st Century Cures Act, which became law as H.R. 34 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 medical records—could face substantial penalties, the research says.
Fewer than one-in-five, or 18%, of the executives surveyed in...
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