Days of information blocking look numbered

Government pressure and business incentives may be changing that.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma told a packed room of health care execs earlier this year that it would no longer be tolerated.

“Let me be crystal clear, the days of finding creative ways to trap patients in your system must end. It’s not acceptable to limit patient records or to prevent them and their doctor from seeing their complete history outside of a particular healthcare system,” she said speaking at HIMSS in March.