The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a final rule that establishes disincentives for health care providers that have committed information blocking. Information blocking is a practice by an "actor" that is likely to interfere with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information (EHI), except as required by law or specified in an information blocking exception. In 2016, the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) made sharing electronic health information t…

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