Fierce Health Payers August 23, 2021
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Healthcare administrators are dramatically underestimating the awareness people within their organizations have about recent information blocking rules and the consequences of failing to comply.

Significant education and training effort will be needed to minimize the risks of violating the new prohibitions on information blocking.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) Cures Act Final Rule prohibits any practice by healthcare providers, health information exchanges or health IT developers from interfering with the access, exchange or use of electronic health information (EHI). Such practices are defined as information blocking. Providers, administrators and IT staff make decisions daily that could interfere with the free flow of EHI because those actions are in many instances based on the very noncompliant...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), Provider, Technology
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