MedPage Today January 2, 2021
— Enforcement of provisions prohibiting information blocking delayed until April 2021
In March, MedPage Today published a story outlining two new interoperability rules issued by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Below we report on what has happened since.
In March, the Trump administration issued two final rules related to interoperability of healthcare records, with administration officials noting that making patient health records portable and accessible is especially critical during incidents such as the COVID-19 outbreak. And yet, the outbreak itself has delayed implementation of some of those same rules.
ONC issued a rule implementing the clinical interoperability provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act dealing with...
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