What you should know about the two proposals:
1. CMS’ Interoperability and Patient Access Proposed Rule details strategies for making patient data transferable in open, secure and standardized formats. This proposal involves:
- Requiring Medicare Advantage Plans, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Qualified Health Plans to roll out, test and monitor standardized application programming interfaces
- Making Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources the API development standard
- Requiring CMS program participants to ensure electronic data exchange as patients move between plan types
- Helping payers and providers in CMS programs take part in reliable exchange networks
- Revising the Conditions of Participation
2. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released a proposed rule called the 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking and the ONC Health IT Certification Program. The rule would:
- Define reasonable and necessary activities that don’t constitute information blocking
- Penalize health information exchanges that violate the rule with a fine of up to $1 million
- Permit providers and healthcare IT companies to withhold electronic health data in seven circumstances
Click here to read more about the proposed rules.
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