HHS Proposals Aim to Boost Patient Access to Medical Records (1)

The federal government is going all in on its goal of electronically sharing medical records with a proposal that would require all Medicare and Medicaid managed care plans to build out app-based systems for accessing the records.

A second proposed rule would provide limited exceptions to an overall ban on blocking the exchange of health records. In addition to the exceptions the proposal calls for publicly identifying all doctors and hospitals who are engaged in prohibited information blocking, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma said on a Feb. 11 press call.

The push for a value-based ...