Pew Joins Tech Companies and Health Organizations in Urging Federal Government to Release Proposed Health IT Regulations

Pew Urges Federal Government to Release Proposed Health IT Regulations

This page was updated Feb. 4, 2020, to include some of the signers of this letter.

The Pew Charitable Trusts and several health groups and technology companies, including Apple, Microsoft, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the CARIN Alliance, sent a letter Jan. 30 to the heads of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Management and Budget urging them to finalize proposed rules designed to improve the exchange of electronic medical records.

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