The Department of Health and Human Services has issued a final rule that amends civil money penalties for information blocking related to HHS grants, contracts and other agreements. Maximum penalties ...

Most larger healthcare organizations are prepared for ONC’s new information blocking rules, but not as many hospitals and health systems feel confident that the regulations will support any ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced its intent to begin actively enforcing the information blocking regulations adopted under the 21st Century Cures Act, in a press release ...

Federal enforcement of information blocking rules has entered a new era. On September 3, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a press release announcing a “crackdown” on the ...

The Medical Group Management Association this week asked for greater transparency from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in its proposed information blocking rules – and outlined ...

HHS Poised to Pounce on Health Care Providers That Hoard Electronic Health Information “Instead of calling this the information blocking rule, they should have called it the information sharing rule.

Healthcare industry stakeholders made their case to leaders in President Donald Trump's health department last week about the need to improve the nation's health information technology infrastructure.