The American Hospital Association expressed concerns over the proposed rule for healthcare IT interoperability, HTI-2, from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), arguing against “burdensome” encryption requirements.The ONC’s HTI-2 proposed…
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ASTP says that information blocking and lack of interoperability progress is mostly due to behavior rather than technology and vows to increase oversight that includes these issues:
Publicly accessible API documentation is not available…
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As the public comment period for the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy’s HTI-2 proposed rule ends, the EHR Association has published a letter raising concerns about the potential impact on IT developers, providers, and…
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The previous article in this series explained how Real Time Medical Systems, Inc. raised the ire of PointClickCare Technologies, Inc. and was prevented from using bots and screen scraping to get access to patient…
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An ongoing lawsuit between two health IT companies raises questions that call for more discussion. Already, the judge’s preliminary injunction in the case (Real Time Medical Systems, Inc. v. PointClickCare Technologies, Inc.) has led…
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ONC publishes its Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability (HTI-2) proposed rule for public comment.
The rule would include new certification criteria for public health and…
What You Should Know:
– The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken a significant step towards improving healthcare information exchange with the release of the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient…
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When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this past week issued its final rule codifying the financial disincentives to be levied by its Office for Civil Rights against provider organizations found to…
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On June 24, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule establishing a set of disincentives in CMS programs for certain health care providers that have been found…
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HHS releases a final rule that establishes “disincentives” for healthcare providers who are found by HHS OIG to have committed information blocking. It will take effect 30 days after it is published in…
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