The Department of Health and Human Services has released a final rule on information blocking. The rule establishes disincentives for healthcare providers who engage in practices they know are ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is locking in its enforcement strategy to keep healthcare providers from blocking access to electronic health information. On Monday morning the ...

Federal enforcement of the 21 st Century Cures Act’s (the Cures Act) prohibitions on improper blocking of electronic health information is ramping up. The Cures Act already targets technology ...

While comments on HHS' proposed rules on information blocking disincentives for Medicare providers aren't due until January 2, 2024, with no set date for publication of a final rule, "the federal ...

The HHS says it will commit new resources to targeting and punishing providers, health IT companies and other groups found information blocking, though the pledge is scarce on details. The impending ...

HHS has received 299 claims of information blocking since April last year, when sweeping interoperability regulations came into effect, its health IT agency said Monday. Of that tranche, 274 present ...

Federal health agencies, led by the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the HHS Office of Inspector General, are encouraging the public to ...