Healthcare IT Today April 8, 2021
For those living under a COVID hole (my heart goes out to you) and missed that Information Blocking from the 21st Century Cures Act went into effect this week on April 5, 2021. If you read this site regularly, you’re probably aware already since we shared a number of the information blocking exceptions and the Information Blocking FAQs that ONC shared before the deadline. Hopefully you were well prepared.
As I look back at various health IT regulations, this is probably the biggest piece of legislation to impact healthcare technology since the HITECH Act (Meaningful Use). There’s not the same money behind it that caused healthcare organizations to fall over themselves as they chased government money, but the new information...