HealthLeaders Media March 2, 2021
Guide details these 21st Century Cures Act exceptions with one month to go until this federal regulation becomes effective.
On April 5, the 21st Century Cures Act: Information Blocking, Interoperability, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program final rule takes effect.
The Journal of AHIMA, the American Health Information Management Association, recently published a helpful guide to the eight exceptions to the information blocking rule incorporated into the Cures Act final rule.
These exceptions were necessary to allow the final rule to comply with other privacy laws and, in certain circumstances, to guard the integrity and security of electronic health record (her) systems, according to the guide’s authors, Sharon Slivochka, RHIA, Cleveland Clinic director of electronic health record in health...