Officials Say HHS Not Afraid To Use Regs To Drive Data Sharing

By Michelle M. Stein / November 30, 2018 at 6:38 PM
Top HHS officials on Thursday (Nov. 29) said they weren’t afraid of using a firm regulatory hand to drive interoperability shortly after CMS Administrator Seema Verma said it would be easier for the agency to use Medicare requirements to compel hospitals and doctors, which received incentive payments for electronic health record use under the previously-called meaningful use program, to share health records with patients than to do so for post-acute care providers that were not part of meaningful use. Meanwhile,...

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