By Bevey Miner, Health IT Strategy/Chief Marketing Officer for Consensus Cloud Solutions Research shows that when a hospital transfers a patient to a long term post-acute care (LTPAC) facility – such as a skilled nursing facility, inpatient rehab facility, assisted living or home health agency – the data sharing between providers often involves the use […]
Is your organization confident that you fully understand the CMS and ONC’s new/final rules on interoperability issued in 2020—the 21st Century Cures Act—and that your team knows the necessary steps to comply with those requirements? If you’re not sure, you are far from alone. In a recent HIMSS event, J2 Global led a focus group […]
On March 9, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a press release titled, “HHS Finalizes Historic Rules to Provide Patients More Control of their Health Data.” The new rules come from two of the department’s major regulators: The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and the Centers […]
