HHS Finalizes Key Information Blocking Exceptions

Lexology December 20, 2024
Holland & Knight LLP

Highlights

• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finalized information blocking exceptions just days before the Dec. 23, 2024, implementation deadline of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) reproductive health information amendment.
• With healthcare providers scrambling to implement this HIPAA requirement in compliance with information blocking, this final rule provides some relief.
• Updates to the TEFCA exception were made to facilitate use of TEFCA for exchanges of information.

The finalization of information blocking exceptions were announced just in the “St. Nick” of time by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP), formerly known as the Office of National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC). The new Protecting...

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