HealthIT Answers December 26, 2020
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By Steven Posnack, M.S., M.H.S. Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

Passed four years ago, the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) included a definition of “information blocking.” On behalf of the HHS Secretary, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) was tasked with implementing this definition and its “exceptions.” The new regulation (also a “law”) published in the Federal Register this past May by ONC identified three types of participants in health care that are covered under information blocking: 1) health care providers, 2) health IT developers of certified health IT, and 3) health information networks (HINs)/health information exchanges (HIEs). We call them “actors” for short.

Through the Cures Act, Congress defined information blocking...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, CMS, Congress / White House, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HHS, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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