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A New Day for Interoperability – The Information Blocking Regulations Start Now
Steven Posnack | April 5, 2021
Enacted by Congress over four years ago through Section 4004 of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) and implemented through a final rule released over one year ago, the time has come for the benefits of the Cures Act’s information blocking provision to swing into full gear.
Read Full Post.Pssst…Information blocking practices, your days are numbered…Pass it on.
Steven Posnack | December 16, 2020
Passed four years ago, the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) included a definition of “information blocking.” On behalf of the HHS Secretary, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) was tasked with implementing this definition and its “exceptions.” The new regulation (also a “law”) published in the Federal Register this past May by ONC identified three types of participants in health care that are covered under information blocking: 1) health care providers,
Read Full Post.To share or not to share, what’s an exception (to information blocking)?
Steven Posnack | December 16, 2020
In a companion blog post I covered some foundational points about the 21st Century Cures Act’s (Cures Act) information blocking law and the regulation ONC issued to implement the law.
Read Full Post.Say “Hey!” to Project US@ – a Unified Specification for Address in Health Care
Steven Posnack | December 1, 2020
Standards come about for many reasons. They make things more efficient, cost effective, and safer to name a few. Often you’ll hear witty banter in the standards community (I know…right!?) about whether something is “fit for purpose.” This is also accompanied by the question, “what’s your use case?”
Read Full Post.Leveraging standardized clinical data to advance discovery
Steven Posnack | July 31, 2020
Opportunity knocks for NIH researchers, who will be able to leverage clinical data from electronic health record (EHR) systems with increased frequency and consistency. The passage of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) has charted a path toward increasing access to and interoperability of electronic health information for clinical care. This, in turn, has paved the way to leverage relevant policies, systems, and infrastructure to accelerate research. In parallel, researchers have been challenged to make data from a single research study,
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