Healthcare DIVE August 10, 2021
Dive Brief:
- Regulators have yet to determine an appropriate punishment for providers found blocking the free flow of information between disparate systems, but “that work is now well underway,” according to Micky Tripathi, head of the Office of the National Coordinator.
- The 21st Century Cures Act passed in 2016 said regulators could fine up to $1 million per information-blocking incident, but left it up to the secretary of HHS to define exact punishment. “Unfortunately, not only have such disincentives not been identified, there was no process in place to see how they be defined,” Tripathi said, speaking virtually on Tuesday at HIMSS’ annual healthcare conference in Las Vegas.
- HHS has formed a workgroup to talk about defining appropriate disincentives,...
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