https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/hipaa-update-inches-closer-reality
By Diana Manos
Healthcare IT News
November 15, 2018
Federal regulatory efforts to upgrade HIPAA have taken a step toward
reform. The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil
Rights (OCR) passed the HIPAA request for information (RFI) on to the
Office of Management and Budget, appearing on the OMB docket for review on
Nov. 13, 2018.
WHY IT MATTERS
This is just one step in many for HIPAA reform's long march from its
origin in the days of paper medical records to the accommodation of the
electronic data-sharing needed to coordinate care under today's
value-based payment models.
Yale researchers last month, for instance, said that even despite HIPAA's
intent, hospitals wind up being roadblocks to patients trying to access
data in EHRs, and calls to overhaul the law for the digital age have grown
louder recently.
"The HHS Deputy Secretary recently launched an initiative called the
Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care. The goal of the Regulatory Sprint
is to remove regulatory barriers that impede coordinated, value-based
health care. This RFI is being produced to support the Regulatory Sprint,"
according to the OMB docket.
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