10 Healthcare Organizations Ask HHS to Postpone Information Blocking Deadline

If you’re familiar with the 21st Century Cures Act, then you know that October 6th is a major deadline that requires healthcare providers, health IT developers, HIEs, HINs, and others to share all ePHI (electronic protected health information) in the DRS (Designated Record Set).  This is a big change from the requirement to share USCDI.  While we’ve known about this deadline for years, it’s not too surprising that many healthcare organizations aren’t ready for it. Given this reality, 10 healthcare organizations have sent a combined letter to HHS asking for a 1 year delay for this deadline.  Here are the 10 organizations that signed the letter: America’s Essential Hospitals American Academy of Family Physicians American Health Care Association (AHCA) American Hospital Association American Medical Association Association of American Medical Colleges Federation of American Hospitals Medical Group Management Association National Association for the Support of Long Term Care (NASL) The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) The letter suggests a number of important things leading off with the fact that a large portion of healthcare organizations aren’t ready for the change.  They highlight specifically that many smaller organizations aren’t ready for the change and that many of them don’t even know about the requirement.  Plus, they suggest that this regulation would be an extra burden on top of staff that...
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