By Steven Lane – The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled plans for a new health data ecosystem, the CMS Interoperability Framework. This voluntary playbook sets expectations for health data networks, EHR developers, payers, providers, and digital health apps to exchange information using common, secure, and transparent standards…
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By Mary Griskewicz – Enforcement of information blocking has moved from concept to practice. On September 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services press release signaled an active enforcement posture and directed more resources to curb practices that interfere with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information.
HHS will take an active enforcement against health care entities that restrict patients’ engagement in their care by blocking the access, exchange, and use of electronic health information.
By Avinash Shanbhag – In this post we outline specific compliance areas associated with API registration that require developers’ attention to support an API user’s ability to utilize a third-party application to access EHI without special effort.
By Micky Tripathi – Our country has made tremendous strides and invested billions of private and public dollars in establishing the digital future of the health care system. We are thus highly concerned about ongoing and recent reports that we have received about potential violations of…
By Chris Emper – In December 2016, the U.S. Congress passed the 21st Century Cures Act, in part to mandate that different EHR systems, hospitals, and physician groups share patient data in compliance with new information blocking rules.
By Kim Boyd – If you are or may become an actor under the information blocking rules, understanding these new criteria is imperative to protect your organization from information blocking non-compliance. There will be more enforcement of the information blocking rule on the horizon, so compliance is more important than ever.
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including HTI-2 Proposed Rule Information Sessions, first one this Wednesday, Information Blocking Disincentives for Providers Final Rule, and share feedback on a new USCDI+ Maternal Health dataset until 7/31.
By Micky Tripathi – ONC’s information blocking regulations consider applicable law, and that now includes the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy Final Rule. In short, complying with this new federal rule will not result in a determination of information blocking under ONC’s regulations.