Interoperability

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hopes to release a proposal requiring healthcare organizations to give patients their medical information.

Agency recommends ways to improve data accuracy, promote trial efficiency when EHRs are used.

A new standard would make financial apps work together the way iPhone apps do. Twelve large banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and RBC, are already using it.

Agency says it will install the system at initial sites to identify problems and correct them before continuing wider deployment.

Agency will hire a chief data strategist to guide the development and implementation of the roadmap.

The administration is working to enhance patient access to health data and will soon issue policy to advance information availability and exchange.

New Trump administration effort looks to encourage data sharing, cloud-based approach, says Joel White.

Four major health IT vendors and 13 provider sites are looking to enroll a total of 1,300 participants.

MyHealthEData effort, which seeks to eliminate barriers preventing consumer electronic access and control of medical records, will include an overhaul of Meaningful Use program, says Seema Verma.

Using open standards, vendor seeks to address industry’s interoperability challenges, says Eric Schmidt.