HealthIT.gov October 23, 2024
In a recent blog post, Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy Micky Tripathi described our agency’s growing concerns about potential lack of compliance with statutes and regulations related to information sharing. That blog post covered issues related to developers of certified health IT and ASTP/ONC Health IT Certification Program (Certification Program) API requirements. In this blog post we share concerns that have been brought to our attention pertaining to potential violations of the information blocking regulations by health care providers as well as developers of certified health IT.
Practices by Health Care Providers
ONC has received over one information blocking complaint each business day since the regulation went into effect in April 2021, and almost 90% of these complaints have been...