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Health Law Advisor: CMS and ONC Tag Team to Promote Sharing of Patient Data

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Health Law Advisor: CMS and ONC Tag Team to Promote Sharing of Patient Data

August 29, 2019

Blog from Alaap Shah and Ebunola Aniyikaiye of Epstein Becker Green.

On February 11th, blockchain advocates, digital health enthusiasts, and patients received positive news from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and the Ofce of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”) regarding patient data sharing. These rules, taken together, seek to make data more liquid, which can promote patient access, continuity of care, research, collaboration across the industry and several other activities that previously faced challenges within a health care system built on data silos.

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