The Electronic Health Care Network Accreditation Commission and the CARIN Alliance have partnered to incorporate both the CARIN Code of Conduct and the EHNAC criteria review process into health plans, health systems, homes, and healthcare. provide EHRs and others to report to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services about their data practices and privacy practices.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
EHNAC, the standards development organization and accrediting body for electronically exchanged healthcare data, and the multidisciplinary CARIN Alliance have created the CARIN Code of Conduct Recognition Program to enhance interoperability. health information and comply with data standardization requirements.
Last July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began enforcing key components of the final Interoperability and Patient Access rule, aimed at accelerating the ability for individuals to access their personal health information through an application of their choice based on the HL7’s FHIR application programming interface.
CMS has given payers the option to deploy a framework to show that they are connecting to the HL7 FHIR APIs.
“While the certification program is not required by policymakers or CARINs, we are pleased to partner with EHNAC to create a special third-party certification program built on top of the EHNAC platform. of the CARIN Code of Conduct has become the de facto industry standard for applications not covered by HIPAA, and the only code named in the federal regulation is ‘industry best practice,’ said Ryan Howells, director program of the CARIN Alliance and principals at Leavitt Partners, said in the announcement.
The new voluntary certification program builds on the CARIN Code of Conduct approach but is not mandated by CMS or CARIN, according to the announcement.
Since the CARIN Alliance launched MyHealthApplication.com allowing payers, providers and developers to self-validate the CARIN Code of Conduct, it has been working to develop and disseminate an application certification and certification framework. consumer-oriented across the industry.
“This includes focusing on providing the highest level of trust for all healthcare stakeholders – patients, providers, health plans, app developers. third parties and many others,” added Lee Barrett, chief executive officer and CEO of EHNAC.
Stakeholders who earn the CARIN Code of Conduct Certification will be listed on the CARIN My Wellness Apps page and the EHNAC Accredited Companies page.
Consumer-directed applications that have been endorsed by the CARIN Code of Conduct on the CARIN website will be included in the first cohort for the accreditation program.
Also of note, EHNAC has updated the Trusted Dynamic Validation & Registration Accreditation Program (TDRAAP) and Trusted Network Accreditation Program (TNAP) to align with the CARIN Code of Conduct criteria for current organization.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
Last year, EHNAC worked with the Affordable Quality Healthcare Council to help encourage app developers and healthcare organizations to demonstrate the ability to use trusted digital certificates to endpoint identification, registration, and authentication.
They designed the TDRAAP certification to validate their app’s security and technical credentials, and give health plans the confidence they need to connect and share member data. .
“The ability to efficiently register and authenticate endpoints is a core component of healthcare interoperability,” Barrett said in a 2021 statement.
The Patient Access and Interoperability Rule requires CMS-administered health plans to allow consumers access to the transfer of their health information through third-party applications. father.
The CARIN Alliance works across the public and private sectors on digital health information sharing compliance. In early 2021, the alliance worked with a number of healthcare organizations to develop a standard digital record model for organizations administering COVID-19 vaccines.
ON PROFILE
“We envision a future where any consumer can select an app of their choice to get both their complete health record and full claim information from,” said Howells. any local provider or program using the HL7 FHIR API”.
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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