On March 9, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced final rules seeking to give patients more access to, and control of, their health data. The final rules were issued by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The ONC rule is available here and the CMS rule here. Both rules implement interoperability and patient access provisions from the 21st Century Cures Act and the Trump administration’s MyHealthEData initiative.
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