INDUSTRY WATCH

摘要

Forthcoming regulations from federal policymakers will penalize stakeholders who engage in information blocking that prevents the flow of health data, as outlined in the 21st Century Cures Act. But a new survey of health information exchanges (HIEs) finds that the majority of respondents-55 percent-reported that electronic health record (EHR) vendors still at least sometimes engage in information blocking, while 30 percent of HIEs reported the same for health systems. The study, conducted between May 2019 and February 2020 by health policy researcher Julia Adler-Milstein, Ph.D., of the UCSF School of Medicine, Jordan Everson, Ph.D., a health policy professor at Vanderbilt University, and Vaishali Pa-tel, Ph.D., an analyst at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), included responses from 89 HIE organization leaders who helped measure the prevalence of information-blocking behaviors observed by these third-party entities.