Healthcare IT News: 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.
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.
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