Dr. Don Rucker, former ONC National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said using APIs for sharing healthcare information will “empower totally new business models” in digital health.
The 21st Century Cures Act, originally passed in 2016, although full implementation was delayed due to COVID-19, enables patients to access their health record through APIs on apps of their choice.
“In...
In many ways’ tech has made the world smaller and more interconnected. Information that once took days to reach new countries now takes milliseconds. Digital health is also shaking up the way patients receive care globally, and how they expect to receive care.
“Our consumer expectations, our knowledge that what we are getting as a consumer in healthcare isn’t matching up to what we are getting...
This morning the US Department of Health and Human Services dropped its long-awaited final rules on interoperability, information blocking and patient access.
While the two final documents from the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) specify a number of new requirements laid out in the 21st...
Even as a number of IT organizations pressed the ONC to extend the comment period, and delay the implementation, of its new data sharing and information blocking rules, a group of entrepreneurs gathered in Boston to hear National Coordinator for Health IT Don Rucker discuss those rules and their implications for the innovation community.
At the 2.5-hour event, which also included a panel of...
