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In an update on several looming regulatory deadlines, the HIMSS Electronic Health Records Association said it asked ONC for enforcement discretion on a December 1 deadline.

With information blocking penalties beginning today, the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association says it's optimistic about the work its members have done to enable wider EHI sharing and get ahead on compliance – which is still evolving.

The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association says it has substantial concerns with regulatory deadlines and other stipulations in ONC's proposed interoperability and AI transparency rule.

HHS has frustrated some doctors by requiring them to send patients test results before they have a chance to explain them.

Leigh Burchell, VP, Policy & Government Relations, at Allscripts discusses the information blocking rule and what providers need to know.

Huge gaps in vaccine data make it next to impossible to know who got the shots As they rush to vaccinate millions of Americans, health officials are struggling to collect critically important information — such as race, ethnicity and occupation — of every person they jab. The data being collected is so scattered that theres little insight into which health care workers, or first responders, have been among the people getting the initial vaccines, as intended — or how many doses instead ha...

Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Never in the history of electronic health records has there been a more important public health recordkeeping task than the one that is at hand at this very moment in the nation’s history: tracking COVID-19 vaccinations. As a result of this all-important development, EHR vendors from across the industry have been preparing their products and their healthcare provider organization users to make sure that when a patient receives this critical vaccination, it is ...