Managed Healthcare Executive July 11, 2019
The federal government is pushing forward with regulatory action that it hopes will end data blocking and promote more sharing of patient information.
The latest move on this front came in February, when the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology issued its proposals for implementing the provisions against information blocking that were laid out in the 21st Century Cures Act.More specifically, ONC is defining what does and does not constitute information blocking by detailing the seven specific scenarios it believes are legitimate reasons for clinicians withholding electronic health information (EHI).
Experts say they see ONC’s move as signaling clinicians to more readily share EHI in all circumstances except for theseven exceptions...
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