Fierce Healthcare November 28, 2018
Evan Sweeney

Verma said making data sharing a Medicare requirement would be “much easier, to some degree, for hospitals and physicians.”

A much-anticipated proposed rule on interoperability should be coming “shortly,” according to a top Trump administration official.

“Hopefully in the next couple of weeks we’ll have some more clarity,” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma told reporters on Tuesday.

A rule titled “Interoperability and Patient Access” is still under review by the Office of Management and Budget. The proposal, deemed “economically significant,” vaguely says it will “move the health care industry toward a more accessible and interoperable health care ecosystem.”

While Verma didn’t comment on the specifics of the rule, she threw her...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, CMS, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, Medicare, Physician, Provider, Regulations, Technology
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