Healthcare stakeholders will have a bit of extra time to get their ducks in a row for the information blocking rules and IT certification requirements outlined in the 21st Century Cures Act. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.