JD Supra March 28, 2022
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) leadership announced during last week’s HIMSS 2022 Conference that the agencies will be focusing on information blocking enforcement for the remainder of 2022.
As reported by Fierce Healthcare, Xavier Becerra, Secretary of HHS, mentioned an example of an information blocking complaint where an Information Blocking Actor (defined as health care providers, health information networks or health information exchanges, or health IT developers of certified health IT) delayed their response to a patient’s record request because a physician was on vacation.
“That’s not the kind of customer service we should expect from a 21st century healthcare system—and that’s just one of hundreds of...
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