Healthcare IT News September 5, 2025
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seeks to expand its enforcement actions and is encouraging patients and health IT developers to report providers and other organizations that stifle the exchange of electronic health information.
Federal health agencies, led by the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the HHS Office of Inspector General, are encouraging the public to report instances of information blocking.
In an announcement this week that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “has directed HHS to increase resources dedicated to curbing the harmful practice of information blocking,” the department warned that it is taking an active enforcement stance to ensure patient access to their electronic health information, with officials...
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