Lexology February 18, 2021
Highlights
- The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) final rule on interoperability, information blocking and patient access to data implements certain provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act to support patients’ access to their electronic health information (EHI) in a form convenient for patients.
- The new regulations prohibiting information blocking are deeply rooted in the interests of health information technology stakeholders. As such, health IT developers are – not surprisingly – subject to the prohibition. However, providers, physicians and practitioners are also actors regulated by the rule.
- The new applicability date of April 5, 2021, is rapidly approaching, making this the time for healthcare entities to review organizational policies and procedures for sharing EHI. Accordingly,...
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