Stakeholders have until June 26 to comment on the request for information, which CMS posted in April. Specifically, the agency wants to know if making data sharing a requirement for Medicare would reduce information blocking as defined in the 21st Century Cures Act and the barriers providers may face to comply with such a rule.
“This is huge,” former ONC head Farzad Mostashari, MD, who now serves as CEO of the ACO consulting firm Aledade, told Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.
Although a number of hospitals and health systems may not want to share their patient data, it is time the government step in, he added. “You’re going to see a very big group pushing for this requirement,” Dr. Mostashari told Politico.
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