Reading List: Proposed ONC Rule on Data Sharing, Interoperability, and Ending Data Silos Sparks National Conversation

The last two and a half weeks have spawned a flurry of coverage and discussion across the social spectrum on the imminent release of proposed regulations from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on interoperability, patient access to their health information, and information blocking by vendors of certified EHRs and Medicare and Medicaid providers. This national conversation was sparked following a report by CNBC’s Christina Farr when she reported on the opposition of the regulations by Epic Systems. CDHI's Aaron Neinstein assembled a list of some of the best thinking on the topic.

• “Epic’s call to block a proposed data rule is wrong for many reasons” by Kenneth Mandl and Isaac S. Kohane on Stat, January 27, 2020

• “An ‘Epic’ pushback as U.S. prepares for new era of empowering patient health data” by Harlan M. Krumholz on Stat, January 27, 2020

• Tweet by Brent Shafer, CEO of Cerner, on Cerner’s support of interoperability and the proposed rule, January 27, 2020

• Tweet-thread on a letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar and Acting Director of the OMB Russell T. Vought, which was signed by 30 healthcare groups in support of the release of the new rules without delay, by Ben Moscovitch, January 30, 2020

• Tweet-thread explaining HIPAA by Arien Malec on February 1, 2020

• “The public health case for federal health IT rules” by Ben Moscovitch on The Hill, February 1, 2020

• “The New Interop Paradigm with America's First CTO, Aneesh Chopra” by Niko Skievaski and Aneesh Chopra on the Redox podcast, February 4, 2020

• “Epic Wrong Turn or Interop, Privacy and Advancing Care” by John Moore on Chilmark Research, February 5, 2020

• “Epic and about 60 hospital chains come out against rules that would make it easier to share medical info” by Christina Farr on CNBC, February 6, 2020