MedPage Today October 28, 2020
— Feds point to limited healthcare IT resources spurred by COVID as reason for delay
Implementation of the federal “Open Notes” rule granting patients immediate access to their clinical notes, originally slated for Monday, has been postponed until next spring, a Department of Health and Human Services official said.
The deadline has been extended to April 5, 2021, to give providers who are busy with the demands of COVID-19 and the move to telehealth more time to comply with the rule, Don Rucker, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said on a press call.
“This was really based on priorities that providers have set with their limited healthcare information technology resources,” Rucker said. “That was the gating activity.”
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