
Once a holdout, Epic supports new interoperability rules
After publicly campaigning against the ONC’s planned interoperability rules, Epic Systems said the agency has addressed privacy concerns in the final version of the legislation.
After publicly campaigning against the ONC’s planned interoperability rules, Epic Systems said the agency has addressed privacy concerns in the final version of the legislation.
Hospitals and health IT vendors will have some extra time to come into compliance with new interoperability rules published by the Department of Health and Human Services in March. The agency is giving them an extension in light of the pandemic.
With data-blocking rules expected to go into effect soon, patients should finally be able to access and freely share their health data. But should those rules also include privacy protections for those that opt to share their data with health apps?
Participants will have the ability to request a Medicare beneficiary claims data from CMS to better understand their medical history and previous treatment patterns from other providers
Surescripts says that instead of using its own National Provider Identification (NPI) number, Pillpack fraudulently used NPIs that was associated with random healthcare providers.
CNBC cited unnamed sources who state that PillPack will be blocked from accessing data about a patient's list of medications and prescription history, which it uses to accurately and safely send out medications to customers.
At a time when AI is reshaping pharma, Reverba Global CEO Cheryl Lubbert explained in an interview why empathy, context, and ethics still require a human touch.