AHIMA March 4, 2021

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Feb. 18, 2021 at Legal HIE and has been re-published with the author’s permission.

The information blocking rule is intended to work in sync with HIPAA, including the “right of access” granted to patients with regard to their own protected health information (PHI). However, as I continue to analyze how to implement the various standards that overlap between these two regulations, questions about how to thread the needle on seemingly conflicting provisions continues to come up.

Today, I take a closer look at the difference between HIPAA’s “right of access” as compared to the Preventing Harm Exception found in the information blocking rule. Specifically, this post considers how a covered entity may...

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