Healthcare Innovation September 28, 2022
Ten provider organizations seek another year to comply as well as corrective action warnings before penalties are imposed
Ten healthcare membership organizations, including CHIME, MGMA and the American Hospital Association, have asked the Department of Health & Human Services to delay the Oct. 6 information blocking deadline by a year.
As detailed in the 21st Century Cures Act, healthcare providers, health IT developers, health information exchanges (HIEs), and health information networks (HINs) are prohibited from engaging in “information blocking” practices starting Oct. 6. They must be able to share all electronic protected health information (ePHI) in a designated record set, as defined under HIPAA.
The organizations said that despite their best efforts to educate their members, “significant knowledge gaps and...
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