| On February 11, 2019 the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), via its Interoperability and Patient Access Proposed Rule, proposed policy changes in support of its MyHealthEData initiative, which is the government-wide initiative started by the Trump Administration in March 2018 to empower patients by breaking down barriers that prevent patients from having electronic access and control over their own health records. This proposed rule specifically outlines opportunities to make patient data more useful and transferable through open, secure, standardized and machine-readable formats while reducing restrictive burdens on healthcare providers. ... |