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Patients may think they own their medical records. While patients certainly have the right to access and, in many cases, control how their health information is used and disclosed, medical records ownership can be murky.
Patients may think they own their medical records. While patients certainly have the right to access and, in many cases, control how their health information is used and disclosed,...
Leigh Burchell, VP, Policy & Government Relations, at Allscripts discusses the information blocking rule and what providers need to know.
Normal text size Very large text size Anew law banning gay conversion practices is being debated today in Victoria’s Parliament. Advocates have described it as “world-leading” while critics have slammed it as the “biggest attack” on religious freedom in years. The proposed law, which is expected to pass the upper house after it was passed through the lower house in December, is the latest in a series of contentious progressive social reforms introduced under the Andrews government – including on assisted dying, safe access zones around abortion clinics, and transgender birth certi...
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...