Physicians Practice January 20, 2021
What the new HL7 interoperability standards means for providers.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Interoperability and Patient Access final rule, along with the 21st Century Cures Act’s interoperability and information-blocking rule, call for streamlining data exchange between healthcare providers, patients, and payers, while protecting stakeholders against “information blocking.”
The legislation, which goes into effect April 5, 2021, also calls for transitioning existing EHR specifications to the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard.
However, many healthcare stakeholders, as well as health IT vendors, aren’t prepared for FHIR implementation and still may not be by winter’s end. Out of the thousands of EHR vendors in the country, only about 680 have been certified as compliant with the...
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