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HHS to Publish Final Rules on Interoperability with Certain Delays in Compliance, Enforcement Deadlines

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT this week announced the final interoperability rules will be published in the Federal Register May 1 with changes in certain compliance and enforcement deadlines. The rules were originally released on March 9.

HHS to publish final health IT rules; agencies delay certain requirements, enforcement deadlines

Due to the COVID-19 emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will give hospitals until July 1, 2021 to implement admission, discharge and transfer notification requirements once its final rule on interoperability and patient access is published in the May 1 Federal Register.
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HHS Releases Final Rules on Information Blocking, Patient Access and Interoperability

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) March 9 issued final rules to implement the 21st Century Cures

HHS issues final rules on interoperability, information blocking

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized rules to promote electronic health information exchange.
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Statement on ONC Final Rule

AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack provides a statement on the ONC final rule.

Promoting Interoperability Program deadlines approaching

Medicare eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals must attest to meaningful use of electronic health records for the 2019 Promoting Interoperability Program reporting period by Monday, March 2 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

HHS finalizes strategy to reduce health IT burdens

The Department of Health and Human Services finalized its strategy to reduce regulatory and administrative burdens for health care providers using electronic health records and other health information technology.

AHA proposes additional CMS actions to reduce regulatory burden

The AHA today proposed additional actions that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could take immediately “to reduce the regulatory burden on hospitals, health systems and the patients that we serve.”

CMS announces Medicare data sharing pilot for clinicians

Medicare fee-for-service providers can sign up to participate in a pilot program allow clinicians to access a patient’s Medicare claims data for treatment purposes without logging into a separate application.

AHA comments on HHS rules to promote health information exchange

Commenting today on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology