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SPM’s comments on important proposed CMS interoperability rules

Society for Participatory Medicine

These regulations are a big deal for participatory medicine – they’re the successor to the Meaningful Use rules that have governed patient access to their chart, among other things. The focus is specifically on patient access to the personal health information sections.

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Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber, 2014 edition

Meaningful HIT News

Lieber reiterated HIMSS’ position that the federal government should extend the attestation period for Meaningful Use Stage 2 by one year. We also discussed other aspects of healthcare reform, trends in health IT and expectations for HIMSS14. 9:05 Remember “macro objective” of Meaningful Use.

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Who will regulate mHealth? Patient Engagement at Crossroads; New Alliance Takes On Interoperability

Chilmark Research

Stage 2 meaningful use is requiring a deeper level of patient access to their records via view, download and transmit requirements and there is even a requirement for some email messaging between provider and patient. For starters at least, this includes: Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, Greenway, and McKesson’s RelayHealth division.

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