Fierce Health Payers March 31, 2021
Starting next week, a new regulation goes into effect that will give patients easier access to their digital health records through their smartphones.
But while health IT experts have been calling for interoperability for years, they say this particular rule could finally be a major step in achieving a meaningful level of data sharing far beyond what’s been seen before in the healthcare sector.
If effectively enforced, the mandate that prohibits information blocking has the potential to revolutionize how patients interact with the healthcare system, said Deven McGraw, a health privacy expert and co-founder and chief regulatory officer at Ciitizen, a consumer health technology company.
“[The information blocking rule] has enormous potential to open up data sources that have previously...
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