On October 29th, 2020, ONC announced an Interim Final Rule to extend compliance for some of the provisions including Information Blocking due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this blog, we discuss what changed in the Interim Final Rule, how it impacts providers and EHR vendors, and solutions for meeting the Information Blocking requirements.
Read MoreThere is a lot of confusion on what exactly the 21st Century Cures Act requires and includes. We help break down the law and demonstrate how we are helping our clients meet the requirements using Azure API for FHIR®.
Read MoreLast year at HIMSS, ONC announced a proposed rule pertaining to some provisions of the 21st Century Cure’s Act, which included some new certification criteria that all EHR vendors will need to support going forward. Yesterday evening, CNBC released an article sharing that Epic’s CEO, Judy Faulkner is urging hospital executives to oppose this rule. Epic has confirmed this and that they have sent an email to HHS Secretary Alex Azar, which has been signed by other “healthcare CEOs.” This is a very disappointing action by Epic, trying to misrepresent the proposed rule. Let’s winnow the fiction from the facts to understand what is going on here.
Read MoreIn a previous blog and the recent webinar, we discussed how CMS has redefined the Patient Engagement requirements under MIPS in 2019. In the proposed rule announced during HIMSS, ONC proposed a new certification criterion targeted towards those objectives that EHRs will need to support going forward. There is a lot of concern (and confusion) specially regarding the security requirements related to “enabling access for patients to their medical records”. This blog provides clarification regarding these requirements and the associated security concerns.
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