Change Healthcare Offers Free Connected Consumer Health™ Interoperability Solution for Health Plans to Meet CMS Deadline
11 Mai 2020 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
New open, industry-standard APIs enable rapid
patient data access with robust cybersecurity, identity, and
consent management
Today Change Healthcare (Nasdaq: CHNG) announced it is making
its Connected Consumer Health™ interoperability APIs (application
programming interfaces) available at no charge to help health plans
quickly achieve compliance with the CMS Interoperability and
Patient Access Final Rule. This innovative approach enables patient
data access through open, industry standard APIs, helping to manage
patient identity, security, and personal preferences. Health plans
can now achieve CMS compliance while mitigating cybersecurity and
implementation risks.
The CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule requires
health plans to make patient data available through industry
standard APIs. CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for
Health IT (ONC) have acted to foster easy patient access to
consumer health information through interoperability and to unleash
digital health innovation. In addition to meeting a January 1, 2021
compliance deadline under the Final Rule, health plans must
mitigate significant cybersecurity and consent risks, as patient
data can only be made available to third parties authorized by the
patient.
Change Healthcare’s Connected Consumer Health interoperability
solution dramatically reduces the cost, complexity, and deployment
barriers to empower payers to rapidly meet CMS’s regulatory
requirements. In addition to standards-based interoperability APIs,
the solution includes the necessary security, identity management,
and consent management capabilities to enable health plans to
administer patient identity and to provide data to third-party
applications in accordance with CMS regulations and HIPAA.
“This is a time-sensitive, complex, and potentially costly
issue, with many challenges that payers are seeking to address
now,” said Kris Joshi, Ph.D., president, Network Solutions, at
Change Healthcare. ”With Connected Consumer Health, Change
Healthcare is helping payers achieve CMS compliance quickly while
dramatically reducing cybersecurity and consent risks, complexity,
and cost. The pandemic has shown us the potential of, and the need
to, accelerate digital health. By leveraging industry
standards-based interoperability APIs and identity management
tools, payers can immediately accelerate their digital health
initiatives.”
Health plans should begin by assessing their data readiness and
develop a plan to meet the CMS deadlines. Change Healthcare’s
standards-based APIs are designed to be easy to adopt and offer
flexible deployment options. Assistance with implementation and
data management is available as needed.
“AultCare is excited to be collaborating with Change Healthcare
on the CMS guidelines pertaining to interoperability,” said Mike
Gallina, vice president of Organizational Development and Community
Engagement at AultCare. “Given the fact that the topic of
interoperability will affect the entire health care industry
overall, and our members in particular, it is important to us to be
working with a company that we know and trust. That type of
relationship exists between AultCare and Change Healthcare.”
Health plans are encouraged to engage early to ensure sufficient
time is available for deployment and testing before the deadline.
For more information or to enroll in the program, please visit
https://inspire.changehealthcare.com/CCHInteroperability.
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About Change Healthcare
Change Healthcare (Nasdaq: CHNG) is a leading independent
healthcare technology company that provides data and
analytics-driven solutions to improve clinical, financial and
patient engagement outcomes in the U.S. healthcare system. We are a
key catalyst of a value-based healthcare system, accelerating the
journey toward improved lives and healthier communities. Learn more
at changehealthcare.com.
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