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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The applicability date for the Information Blocking regulations in the ONC Cures Act Final Rule was set as November 2, 2020, but was subsequently adjusted in the ONC Interim Final Rule to April 5, 2021, in recognition of the significant demands that COVID-19 has placed on health care providers. With the pandemic unabated, the American Hospital Association recently urged the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to further extend the applicability d...

Feb 19, 2021 8:05am In March 2020, the Trump administration released widely anticipated rules that prohibit information sharing and will change how providers, insurers and patients exchange health data. (everythingpossible/GettyImages) New data-sharing regulations will soon go into effect that lay the groundwork for patients to have easier access to their health information. When will patients start to see the benefits of these new mandates? New federal health IT leader Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., believes it's already happening. "A lot more is happening behind the scenes that benefit patients t...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: 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 a...

Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sequoia Project's Interoperability Matters Information Blocking Workgroup (IBWG) has invited Jennifer Blumenthal, CEO and co-founder of OneRecord, to join their newly launched Healthcare Providers Subgroup. OneRecord's CEO, Jennifer Blumenthal, joins the Sequoia Project's Interoperability Matters Information Blocking Workgroup. The Sequoia Project, a non-profit dedicated to solving health IT interoperability for the public good, established three subgroups to reflect the issues facing distinct actor categories...