The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee on Wednesday finalized its list of 31 issues to tackle over the next two years, including price transparency and third-party access to health data.<\/p>\n
Members of HITAC, which provides policy recommendations to HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, voted to approve its annual report during a meeting Wednesday. Under the 21st Century Cures Act, HITAC is required to submit a report to the HHS secretary and Congress each year, outlining the group’s progress and recommendations for future activities.<\/p>\n
The ONC sets objectives for HITAC, but solicits recommendations from the group to inform those goals.<\/p>\n
All 31 tasks proposed in the 2019 report<\/a> are related to three priority areas mandated by the Cures Act: interoperability, privacy and security, and patient access to information.<\/p>\n That’s become a controversial topic in healthcare, as the ONC moves toward finalizing its proposed interoperability rule that would allow patients to download their own health data from providers using third-party apps. Provider groups have repeatedly expressed concern over the proposal, noting that app developers aren’t held to the same privacy standards as providers.<\/p>\n [\u2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n This is an excerpt from a previously published article.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Click here to view full original article at www.modernhealthcare.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee on Wednesday finalized its list of 31 issues to tackle over the next two years, including price transparency and third-party access to health data.<\/p>\n Members of HITAC, which provides policy recommendations to HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, voted to approve its annual report during a meeting Wednesday. Under the 21st Century Cures Act, HITAC is required to submit a report to the HHS secretary and Congress each year, outlining the group’s progress and recommendations for future activities.… Read More <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[48,20,13,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}