fah hospital policy blog

FAH joined with 11 health care provider, health insurer and patient organizations to release a white paper entitled Health IT Leadership Roundtable: Future of Interoperability and Secure Consumer Access to Health Care Data.

“The final interoperability rules issued today lack adequate privacy and security requirements for third-party apps.”

“It is imperative that we get this right to realize the promise of health IT and improve the quality and efficiency of care provided to patients while reducing provider burden.”

The FAH submitted comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in response to the Request for Information on the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Reporting Program. The FAH expressed appreciate for the agency’s efforts to improve interoperability and offered suggestions for ONC’s implementation of the EHR Reporting Program, including revising the focus of the Program and improving the Certified Health IT Products List (CHPL) website.