The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has now established disincentives for certain health care providers if found by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to have committed ...

The department said it plans to hold providers and IT developers accountable for limiting the use and exchange of electronic health information. The Department of Health and Human Services announced ...

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 ...

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 US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced its intent to begin actively enforcing the information blocking regulations adopted under the 21st Century Cures Act, in a press release ...

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 ...

The HHS released the proposed information blocking penalties for providers in the fall, years after rules went into effect that banned preventing the exchange of health data. Regulators also finalized ...

ONC head Don Rucker, MD, said the agency’s information blocking rule won’t be released until September, according to the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter. Dr. Rucker announced the new timeline for ...

The ONC is planning to take action to enforce more open data sharing between systems to advance interoperability. Health information blocking is the act of “knowingly and unreasonably interfering with ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently took a significant step toward improving patient care and reducing healthcare costs by finalizing rules that establish disincentives for ...

The American Hospital Association had four areas of comments for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on the ...