Becker's Healthcare January 22, 2021
Information blocking among EHR vendors and health systems is still common despite policymakers’ recent efforts to ban such practices, according to a January study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Researchers collected survey results from 89 health information exchange organizations to learn more about the prevalence of EHR vendors and health systems blocking efforts to digitally share patient data necessary for medical care.
Fifty-five percent of HIEs reported cases of information blocking by EHR vendors at least some of the...