Industry Notes:
Government Fights EHR 'Information Blocking'
Published on Wed Jun 17, 2015
On the one hand, the government is pushing all medical practices to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) as quickly as possible. On the other, federal agencies are looking into how some medical practitioners are blocking other doctors from electronically sharing health information with them. “We have received many complaints of information blocking,” Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, national coordinator for health [...]