Manatt Health October 17, 2022
Alexander Dworkowitz, Randi Seigel

On October 6, the expanded definition of electronic health information (EHI) under the information blocking rule went into effect, in what the government hailed as “data liberation day.”

Under the 21st Century Cures Act information blocking requirements, certain actors are prohibited from engaging in information blocking regarding EHI. In general, information blocking is a practice that is likely to interfere with the access, exchange or use of EHI, but does not include practices that are covered by an information blocking exception or are required by law. Health care providers, health information networks and certain electronic health record (EHR) developers are subject to the information blocking rule.

Until October 6, EHI only included information represented in the United States Core Data...

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