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Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability

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American Pharmacists Association (APhA) filed 1 comment on this docket between Sep 30, 2024 and Sep 30, 2024. 70 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 662d ago.

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Sep 30, 2024· Comment from American Pharmacists Association, HHS-ONC-2024-0010, HHS-ONC-2024-0010-0001, 2024-14975· HHS-ONC-2024-0010-0034

The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) is pleased to submit our comments on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's (ONC) proposed rule for Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability (HTI-2). APhA is the largest association of pharmacists in the United States advancing the entire pharmacy profession. APhA represents pharmacists, scientists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians in all practice settings, including but not limited to community pharmacies, hospitals, long-term care facilities, specialty pharmacies, community health centers, physician offices, ambulatory clinics, managed care organizations, hospice settings, and government facilities. Our members strive to improve medication use, advance patient care, and enhance public health. APhA supports pharmacists being recognized as providers in relation to the information-blocking regulations discussed in the proposed rule as long as pharmacists also have access to EHI to ensure the delivery of pharmacist-provided patient care services. This increase in access to EHI will lead to pharmacists being able to provide prompt patient care that can be communicated to other providers ensuring a safe continuum in the delivery of patient care services. APhA requests ONC clarify, with specificity, that pharmacists must have access to this essential patient EHI. In addition, HHS (ONC, OGC) should proactively prevent other "health care providers," health IT developers, and entities from practicing any form of "information blocking" under an HTI-2 final rule. See, attached .PDF for full comments.

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Abstract

The HTI-2 proposed rule seeks to advance interoperability, improve transparency, and support the access, exchange, and use of electronic health information through proposals for: standards adoption; adoption of certification criteria to advance public health data exchange; expanded uses of certified application programming interfaces; and information sharing under the information blocking regulations. It proposes to establish a new baseline version of the United States Core Data for Interoperability. The proposed rule would also implement certain provisions related to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), which would support the reliability, privacy, security, and trust within TEFCA.

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