News Briefs: New Interoperability Rule May Be on Horizon
Biden administration officials during the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference said CMS intends to revamp its interoperability regulations. CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule issued in 2020 “did not quite hit the mark” because it didn’t require standardized application programming interfaces (APIs), FierceHealthcare reported. “Our interoperability rule wasn’t interoperable enough, and it led to many open questions about how data should be exchanged,” she added.
New research from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) indicates that 36% of outpatient mental health and substance use disorder visits were delivered via telehealth in the six months ending in August 2021. Those visits spiked because of flexibilities and social distancing requirements implemented during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, KFF concluded.
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