tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 12

Industry Notes: Government Fights EHR 'Information Blocking'

On the one hand, the government is pushing all medical practices to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) as quickly as possible. On the other, federal agencies are looking into how some medical practitioners are blocking other doctors from electronically sharing health information with them. “We have received many complaints of information blocking,” Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, national coordinator for health information technology, told the New York Times in a May 26 article on the topic. At issue is whether some practitioners are refusing to share health information electronically with medical professionals who they deem to be competitors...

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