January 4, 2021
Public Policy Priorities
Health Data Privacy, Health IT Standards & Interoperability, Patient Empowerment
Statement Type Regulatory Comment
Statement Type Regulatory Comment
In comments submitted to CMS last week, AMIA strongly supported the agency’s effort to provide patients, providers, and payers improved access to certain data through modern API standards and policies to enable such access. However, it also cautioned that CMS should reevaluate the proposed implementation timeline and seek to include the proposed prior authorization APIs as part of EHR certification criteria.