Healthcare DIVE October 6, 2022
Dive Brief:
- A regulatory deadline kicked in Thursday requiring providers and other healthcare entities to be able to share a significantly larger scope of data with patients, despite major provider groups arguing they’re not ready to comply.
- As of Thursday, information blocking regulations apply to all electronic health information in a record that qualifies as protected health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
- Previously, providers only had to make available data elements in a specific dataset called United States Core Data for Interoperability.
Dive Insight:
The government has been phasing in compliance with sweeping information blocking regulations over the past two years, a process that ends with the new deadline, the Office of the National...