HealthIT Answers September 9, 2024
By Chris Emper, Government Affairs Advisor, NextGen Healthcare
In December 2016, the U.S. Congress passed the 21st Century Cures Act, in part to mandate that different EHR systems, hospitals, and physician groups share patient data in compliance with new information blocking rules.
Following the passage of the law, it took several years for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue a final regulation detailing exactly what these data-sharing rules would require and then, in 2021, those rules officially went into effect for the first time, but without any enforcement or penalties and applying only to a subset of health information.
In October 2022, the rules expanded in scope in terms of the data covered to include...
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