HIPAA update inches closer to reality

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By Diana Manos
Healthcare IT News
November 15, 2018

Federal regulatory efforts to upgrade HIPAA have taken a step toward 
reform. The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil 
Rights (OCR) passed the HIPAA request for information (RFI) on to the 
Office of Management and Budget, appearing on the OMB docket for review on 
Nov. 13, 2018.

WHY IT MATTERS

This is just one step in many for HIPAA reform's long march from its 
origin in the days of paper medical records to the accommodation of the 
electronic data-sharing needed to coordinate care under today's 
value-based payment models.

Yale researchers last month, for instance, said that even despite HIPAA's 
intent, hospitals wind up being roadblocks to patients trying to access 
data in EHRs, and calls to overhaul the law for the digital age have grown 
louder recently.

"The HHS Deputy Secretary recently launched an initiative called the 
Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care. The goal of the Regulatory Sprint 
is to remove regulatory barriers that impede coordinated, value-based 
health care. This RFI is being produced to support the Regulatory Sprint," 
according to the OMB docket.

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