BC Advantage - 2021 Issue 5

Information Blocking and Patient Access to Data

April 5th 2021 was a major day in the history of patient data access. On that day, providers, vendors, and health information networks were required, under federal regulation, to make patient data available electronically to patients. The federal rule, 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program, means that providers must find a way agreeable to both the practice and the patient to provide data.The information blocking rules say that if a patient requests their data in digital form, one way it can be provided is through a link between the EHR...

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