Advisory Board March 12, 2020
Providers and insurers are raising concerns that newly finalized rules from CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), which aim to expand patients’ electronic access to health information and improve interoperability, could put patients’ privacy at risk.
CMS and ONC finalized the rules on Monday.
The CMS rule finalizes the agency’s plan to improve access to clinical, encounter, claims, and other types of data that can be shared among patients, plans, and federal agencies through FHIR-standard Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The rule also finalizes ways CMS can discourage information blocking, capture more electronic addresses for providers, and require hospitals to electronically send admission, discharge, and transfer notifications.
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