“The Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT’s release of its 21st Century Cures Act interoperability final rule last week cemented requirements for health IT developers that promotes secure, standards-based application programming interfaces.”
“With the final rule now in place, ONC Senior Advisor Mark Vafiades detailed the implications the rule will bring to the healthcare landscape — from aiming to empower patients over their health data to enabling rapid medical responses in both day-to-day care and in moments of public health emergencies like the current COVID-19 pandemic…”
“Future of Health Data-Sharing and Best Practices
Although healthcare systems in America have nudged toward a state of interoperability, Vafiades said that ONC’s 21st Century Cures Act final rule — which he added ONC worked on with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs — will help push those systems toward “true interoperability.”
“More specifically, the rule will require that EHR developers standardize health data so that patients can more easily control their health information and easily transfer it to their providers — regardless of the health system or EHR…” Read the full article here.
Source: ONC Senior Advisor Highlights How Data-Sharing Will Shape Future of Healthcare – By Melissa Harris, March 17, 2020. GovernmentCIO.
