EHR Intelligence May 13, 2021
EHR vendors were 25 percent more likely to participate in practices that entail information blocking compared to health systems, a survey found.
To give insight into how policy makers can drive adherence to the ONC’s new information blocking rule, the agency released a statement highlighting January survey data that reveals information blocking practices are more common among EHR vendors than health systems.
The survey, published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, was based on responses from 89 health information exchanges (HIE).
More than half of the respondents (55 percent) reported that EHR vendors engage in practices that may involve information blocking. In contrast, 30 percent of HIEs reported that health systems engage in practices that may include...