CMS and ONC Proposed Rules on Interoperability, Patient Access, Information Blocking, and EHR Certification

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal Advisor, and Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors.  This session focuses on two proposed rules recently published by the federal government:  Interoperability and Patient Access from CMS, and Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program.  Dan and Jason provide an overall review of these rules and how they may impact hospitals, health systems, clinicians, EHR vendors, and payers.  They also discuss new definitions, terminology and lexicon, timelines and expectations, and the Top 5 things that providers and health care organizations should be doing now to prepare for these proposed regulations.