Healthcare IT Today August 25, 2020
Mitch Parker, CISO

The 21st Century CURES Act Final Rule is a major change for healthcare data interchange. The reason being is because patients are now entitled to use Application Programming Interfaces to download their health data into their application of choice. Further reinforcing the original intent of HIPAA, this empowers patients to download their data and use it as they see fit. This legislation demonstrates an evolution of technology since the original HIPAA Security Rule.

How does this fit in with what CIOs need to know? Since this is an evolution, there are new technologies that have to be integrated into the stack to be able to appropriately use this and provide our patients with the assurance that we are securing...

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Topics: Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), HIPAA, Insurance, Provider, Technology
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