tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2019 Issue 5

Information Blocking: Cures Act Proposals Offer 7 Data-Blocking Exceptions

The costs of information sharing may factor into future policymaking. The healthcare industry keeps discovering more diverse and innovative ways to share patient information and improve care. However, regulators have long struggled to align policies and standards with emerging technologies while securing patients’ safety. But a long-promised proposed rule from the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has finally come to fruition — and it aims to revamp health IT, health information exchange (HIE), and patient engagement. “By outlining specific requirements about electronic health information [EHI], we will be able to help patients...

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