[TAO] Fwd: ONC Releases Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

[Catherine Britain]

Thought you might want to consider commenting on this.

Cathy

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From: ONC Health IT <donotreply at connect.hhs.gov>
Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 5:47 AM
Subject: ONC Releases Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
To: <csbritain at gmail.com>


Read the proposed rule
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ONC Releases Proposed Rule to Support Seamless and Secure Access to,
Exchange of, and Use of Electronic Health Information (EHI)
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the
National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) today issued a proposed rule to
support seamless and secure access to, exchange of, and use of electronic
health information (EHI).

The proposed rule is designed to increase innovation and competition by
giving patients and their healthcare providers secure access to health
information and to new tools, allowing for more choice in care and
treatment. It calls on the healthcare industry to adopt standardized
application programming interfaces (APIs), which would allow individuals to
securely and easily access structured EHI using applications for
smartphones and other mobile devices.

The proposed rule would implement provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act
that deter and penalize information blocking by outlining seven proposed
exceptions to its definition under the law.

The proposed rule would place a strong focus on patient access to their
health information through a provision requiring that patients could
electronically access their EHI at no cost. It would also encourage
competition and new business models in the health care market.

The proposed rule also includes a request for information on the parameters
and implications of including price information within the scope of EHI and
if that information would help the public see the prices they are paying
for their healthcare.

The proposed rule is posted on HealthIT.gov for review and will be
published in the Federal Register soon. ONC encourages stakeholders to
provide their comments through the Federal Register online submission
process, once it has been published there. We'll update HealthIT.gov once
the proposed rule is published by the Federal Register.

*ONC is on the ground at HIMSS. We will provide an overview of the proposed
rule in our Policy education session (session #27) on Tuesday, February 12
at noon ET in room W307A. The ONC Policy team is also holding a listening
session on Wednesday, February 13 at 12:15pm ET at the Hyatt Regency,
Celebration 8. ONC’s Town Hall (session #206) is Thursday, February 14 at
8:30am ET in the Chapin Theater.*
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