Lexology August 29, 2023
On September 1, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) will begin enforcing information blocking penalties against certain health care information technology (IT) actors as published in the HHS-OIG final rule on June 27.
The original information blocking rules are the combination of the two final rules published in May 2020 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) that are intended to improve patient access to health information, with new standards that will reduce information blocking. “Information blocking” is defined as “a practice that interferes with, prevents, or materially discourages access, exchange, or use of electronic health information”[1] that is not otherwise...
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