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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a final rule establishing penalties for health care providers engaging in information blocking. This rule aims to ensure access to electronic health information and applies disincentives to hospitals, clinicians, and accountable care organizations engaging in information blocking ...
The effective date for compliance with the Information Blocking Final Rule, a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act geared towards ensuring access, exchange and use of electronic health information (EHI) took effect on April 5, 2021. This article provides a quick summary of the rule and links to key information for health care providers who should ...
CMS issues a COVID-19 related extension of the deadline for hospitals to implement the new Medicare Condition of Participation (CoP) that requires hospitals to transmit an electronic notification of a patient's admission, discharge and transfer to the patient's identified post-acute providers.
CMS proposes new Medicare Conditions of Participation for hospitals that will require hospital EHRs to send electronic event notifications to other providers when a patient has been admitted, discharged or transferred. CMS is seeks stakeholder input, including timeframe for implementation. Comments are due by Friday, May 3, 2019 ...