Upcoming Compliance Date With Cures Act

On March 2019, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a Proposed Rule, 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking and the ONC Health Information Certification Program. The Final Rule was then published on May 1, 2020 in the Federal Register. The enacted regulation established various compliance dates for enforcement of the regulation on its applicable actors. The Cures Act expands the definition of responsible individuals by using the term Actors rather than Covered Entities. The implication of this change is that additional participants that hold electronic PHI but do not meet the definition of a Covered Entity are subject to elements of the Cures Act.