The road to interoperability is long and not always clear. The ONC offered clarification on how HIPAA fits into a future where data flows freely between health IT systems that seamlessly work together ...

Patients want their healthcare information to stay private. Healthcare provider organizations want to keep patient data secure. But the need for interoperability and sharing of protected health ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has required healthcare organizations as well as federal agencies to take data gathering and reporting to a new level for coordinated care. The response promotes interoperability ...

Providers, patient advocates and app developers broadly support a Trump-era rule that would make it easier to share patient health information, but they remain divided over how far the changes should ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has long championed interoperability as a cornerstone of providing better care, improving patient empowerment, and reducing administrative burden.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) does not impede the interoperability of health data--and this is a point the Office of the National Coordinator is trying to drive home ...

Only a few days remain before the enforcement delay that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) exercised due to COVID-19 will end and the agency will require certain payors to publish a ...

"Under HIPAA, the inpatient facility is responsible only for complying with HIPAA in disclosing the PHI to the rehabilitation facility in a permitted and secure manner," they write. "This includes ...

Given the benefits of interoperability and free flow of data, the US government has already spent more than $35 billion under the meaningful use program to subsidize the adoption cost of electronic ...

The Trump administration is proposing sweeping changes to the decades-old rule regulating the privacy of Americans' sensitive medical information in a bid to remove barriers to value-based care, give ...

Overcoming misperceptions about the HIPAA Privacy Rule will prove vital to achieving nationwide, secure health data exchange, says attorney Jodi Daniel, who until ...

On December 10, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), released draft regulatory changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ...