MedCity News April 18, 2021
Despite a 20-year head start, providers still fall short of HIPAA requirements around fulfilling patient requests for their medical records. In light of the federal information blocking rules, providers should first examine their compliance with HIPAA and then address the new demands imposed by the recently enacted regulations.
The federal information blocking rules went into effect about 10 days ago. As providers’ thoughts turn to compliance, there is one measure that can give us a sense of how they will fare: their compliance with HIPAA’s individual right of access provisions.
A dashboard developed by Ciitizen, a Palo Alto, California-based company that helps patients get access to their medical records, provides insight into how thousands of hospitals and health systems around...