Information blocking is an emerging area of law that has important implications for health care providers and health information networks. The law of information blocking originated with the 21 st ...

In December 2024, the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ASTP/ONC”) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

The policy allows actors to restrict information sharing when there’s risk it could expose patients or clinicians to legal fallout when providing or seeking legal care. The Health Data, Technology and ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Dec. 22 proposed a rule that would significantly reduce federal health IT certification requirements, revise ...

The HHS says it will commit new resources to targeting and punishing providers, health IT companies and other groups found information blocking, though the pledge is scarce on details. The impending ...

A new rule issued today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology involves the patient, not as a person being “acted upon,” said Elise Sweeney Anthony, director of ...

A federal appeals court ruled that electronic health records company PointClickCare can't block health analytics firm Real Time Medical Systems from accessing patient data from its skilled nursing ...

Healthcare leaders are continuing to express their concerns about the changes that President Donald Trump’s administration is making to HHS. Just this week, 20 state attorneys general sued the ...

The ONC is planning to take action to enforce more open data sharing between systems to advance interoperability. Health information blocking is the act of “knowingly and unreasonably interfering with ...

Federal health agencies, led by the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the HHS Office of Inspector General, are encouraging the public to ...

Electronic health records company PointClickCare is asking a district court to throw out Real Time Medical Systems' lawsuit alleging information blocking. PointClickCare filed a renewed motion to ...

A federal court will continue to prevent PointClickCare from blocking a smaller data analytics firm from its platform, rejecting an appeal in the year-old case against the massive electronic ...