Back in 2019, the Proposed Interoperability rules were released from ONC and CMS, and the final version of these rules were published in March 2020. While there were some changes implemented based on comments received, largely the new rules kept a lot of the original requirements along with the timelines for implementation. Some of those […]
New proposed rules from HHS would require government health plans and health plans sold on the federal ACA exchanges to give patients free access and control over their health information by 2020 and to implement an HL7 FHIR-based API to open up data access to third party apps and developers.
A new independent study from Phyx Primary Care’s Innovation Lab points to measurable improvements in physician burnout, documentation efficiency, and key VBC metrics among primary care practices.
If standards are the language we use in healthcare, then the industry is missing the telephone lines connecting everyone speaking it.
Despite all the talk of interoperability among policy-makers, providers and even technology vendors, today's crop of electronic health records will continue to be "fortress" applications that hinder information sharing until incentives change and, perhaps most importantly, end users demand interoperable systems, according to a new Chilmark Research report.