Becker's Healthcare March 19, 2019
CMS and ONC’s recently released interoperability rules will give patients more power and access over their medical data, leading the shift to consumer-driven competition in healthcare, David Blumenthal, MD, former National Coordinator for Health IT, wrote in an article for Harvard Business Review.
The rules, which support the MyHealthEData initiative and 21st Century Cures Act, would give patients access to their electronic health data at no cost, creating the “potential to open up the healthcare marketplace to consumer-driven competition in ways never seen before in the history of medicine in the United States or anywhere,” Dr. Blumenthal wrote in the article.
Per CMS’ rule, enrollees in Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Medicare Advantage plans and Qualified Health Plans would...
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