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CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Rule
and 21st Century Cures Act

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published final rules on several facets of the 21st Century Cures Act that have broad ramifications on the healthcare technology industry. Taken together, these efforts are aimed at facilitating interoperability to improve care coordination and transitions of care.

The Interoperability and Patient Access Rule (CMS-9115-F) requires hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and critical access hospitals with electronic health records to send electronic notifications to the patient’s care team when patients are admitted, discharged, or transferred (ADT) to healthcare facilities or providers. Specifically, hospitals must send notifications to:

• the patient’s established primary care practitioner, practice group, or entity—or other practitioners, practice groups, or entities identified by the patient as the entity primarily responsible for their care
• any post-acute care service provider/agency or other outpatient service provider(s) responsible for the patient’s follow-up or ancillary care—specifically defined as post-acute services providers and suppliers with whom the patient has an established care relationship prior to admission or to whom the patient is being transferred or referred

Hospitals must have a solution implemented 12 months after the rule is published in the Federal Register.

The Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program (45 CFR Parts 170 and 171) regulates the blocking of electronic health information (EHI) and grants HHS enforcement abilities.

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