MedPage Today September 23, 2021
— Provision is “unworkable,” harms patients, and adds to clinical stress, doctors say
Some physicians are bridling at last week’s federal advisory suggesting they can delay releasing bad news to patients’ electronic health portals without violating the new federal law that requires it. Their patients just have to request the delay up front.
The framework for doing that is embedded in the “Privacy Exception,” one of eight exceptions in the new Information Blocking or “Open Notes” rule. This one allows “actors” (i.e., clinicians) to withhold releasing health information to a patient if that release could harm the patient, according to a spokesman for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), which is administering the rule.
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