EHR Intelligence September 22, 2017
Encouraging widespread health IT standards use could end information blocking without penalizing EHR companies.
Lately the discourse among healthcare leadership surrounding interoperability has morphed into a debate about information blocking — is it a real barrier to health data exchange or simply a red herring unfairly directing blame at EHR companies?
David Kibbe, MD, CEO and President of DirectTrust, argues that information blocking is a real threat to health data exchange; however, he does not believe EHR companies are restricting data flow maliciously.
“It’s not necessarily occurring because of the evil intent of business practices,” Kibbe told EHRIntelligence.com. “There’s an awful lot of information blocking that occurs as a result of a lack of understanding of technical standards, implementations that...
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