HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced the pledge at HIMSS16. The pledge underlines three key commitments in health IT which stakeholders promise to implement and uphold: supporting consumer access, promoting transparency and implementing standards.
Medsphere joins companies including Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, Epic, McKesson and MEDITECH in making the pledge.
“In policy and practice, Medsphere adheres to the principles of open, connected and secure data sharing among all providers,” according to a statement. “To further these goals and advance interoperability among health information systems enabling free movement of data, we embrace the…foundational principles.”
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