Health Companies Get More Time to Adopt Data Sharing Rules (1)

April 21, 2020, 9:00 PM UTCUpdated: April 21, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

Health tech companies are getting more time to adopt and implement rules to give patients free access to their data, the HHS said Tuesday.

The two sets of rules, by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, are also designed to prevent medical providers and health tech vendors from improperly sharing or withholding patient health information.

The ONC won’t enforce its rules for an additional three months, and the CMS is giving providers an additional six months to comply with some of the ...

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