Tag Archives: Interoperability

HHS Announces Extended Comment Period for Healthcare Interoperability Proposed Rules, Releases New HIPAA FAQs

Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it would extend until June 3, 2019 the comment periods for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information … Continue reading

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Interoperability and Patient Access to Health Data Proposed Rules Are Here: Comments Due May 3

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule on March 4 to help patients more easily access their complete health information in interoperable forms across programs that CMS administers (the Interoperability Rule). Read more detail on … Continue reading

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ONC Report Signals New Interoperability Demands Coming

Office of National Coordinator to prioritize interoperability of electronic health records. Read more detail on Recent Health Care Law posts –

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Facing Facebook: Data Portability and Interoperability Are Anti-Monopoly Medicine

Social media has a competition problem, and its name is Facebook. Today, Facebook and its subsidiaries are over ten times more valuable than the next two largest social media companies outside China—Twitter and Snapchat—combined. It has cemented its dominance by … Continue reading

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CMS FY 2019 IPPS and LTCH PPS proposed rule targets interoperability, transparency and burden reductions

On April 24, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its fiscal year (FY) 2019 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long-term care hospital prospective payment system (LTCH PPS) proposed rule. CMS proposes to reduce regulatory burdens for … Continue reading

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