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On November 4, 2020, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published an Interim Final Rule with Comment Period (IFC) that delays compliance dates necessary to meet certain requirements related to information blocking initially finalized in the ONC Cures Act Final Rule (Final Rule) in March of 2020. The Final Rule implemented health IT provisions enacted under the 21
st Century Cures Act (the Cures Act) to achieve ubiquitous interoperability among health IT systems and to improve patient’s ability to access their electronic health information (EHI). Among these provisions is a prohibition of information blocking. This article will define information blocking, provide and explain exceptions to such practice, detail the IFC’s deadline extensions, and highlight key compliance concerns and solutions regarding these reforms.
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On January 19, 2021, CMS announced the results of its audit of off-campus outpatient departments claiming the “mid-build” exception following enactment of the 21st Century Cures Act (the Cures Act). Of the 334 providers that CMS audited, only 132 providers qualified for the mid-build exception. The Cures Act required that CMS complete these audits no later than the end of CY 2018, but CMS only announced the results of those audits on the last full day of the prior administration. Despite the long delay, CMS had previously stated that hospitals that reasonably believed they qualified for the exception could bill for services provided in mid-build facilities at full Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rates. Denials now call into question whether affected hospitals must repay the difference between excepted and non-excepted rates for nearly four years of claims. King & Spalding has received feedback from many ho
All equipped with law degrees, the nine managers include Democrats who served as notable characters in Trumps first impeachment trial and some who have spoken out forcefully against Trump in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
January 27, 2021 Integrating a dedicated patient image portal with the portal for an electronic health record (EHR) can significantly increase the number of patients who access their medical images, according to a case study published online January 23 in the
Dr. Amy Ellenbogen and colleagues at the University of Virginia Novant Health System shared how nearly sevenfold more patients began accessing their images and reports following the integration of the institution s patient imaging portal with its EHR patient portal.
The University of Virginia had offered an imaging patient portal (CareVue, Carestream Health, and then Philips Healthcare) since 2013. A few years ago, they requested that the portal be integrated with the MyChart EHR patient portal (Epic Systems).