In an effort to advance consumer-directed exchange within the healthcare industry among health plans, providers and third-party app developers, EHNAC and The CARIN Alliance announced the launch of a new common code of conduct.

Last July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began enforcing key components of the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule – one of several key federal initiatives aimed at accelerating the ability for individuals to access their personal health information via an application of choice leveraging HL7® FHIR® APIs.

CMS provided an option for payers to implement an attestation framework asking developers to describe the data practices and privacy provisions of the applications that are connecting to the HL7® FHIR® APIs. This new voluntary certification program builds on the CARIN Code of Conduct already established self-attestation approach but is not required by CMS or CARIN.

In addition to this launch of the CARIN Code of Conduct accreditation program, EHNAC has updated its Trusted Dynamic Registration & Authentication Accreditation Program (TDRAAP) and the Trusted Network Accreditation Program (TNAP) to align with the CARIN Code of Conduct criteria for applicable organizations.

Stakeholders who attain CARIN Code of Conduct Accreditation will be listed on the CARIN My Health Application site and the EHNAC Accredited Companies page.

Stakeholders who attain CARIN code of conduct accreditation will be listed on the CARIN My Health Application site and the EHNAC Accredited Companies page. Already, multiple consumer-facing applications who have attested to the CARIN Code of Conduct are listed on the MyHealthApplication.com website.

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