I was getting ready for a night out when I spotted a "hey girlie" text from an unknown number flash across my screen. "I'm Danny's girlfriend and I saw some messages from you on his phone. I was ...

ONC head Don Rucker, MD, said the agency’s information blocking rule won’t be released until September, according to the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter. Dr. Rucker announced the new timeline for ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed new rules that will have a profound effect on how healthcare providers share patient data. The Office for the National Coordinator of ...

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 ...

Most larger healthcare organizations are prepared for ONC’s new information blocking rules, but not as many hospitals and health systems feel confident that the regulations will support any ...

This week on the American Bar Association’s Our Curious Amalgam podcast, co-hosts Jeny Maier, Managing Partner at Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, and Matt Tabas, Antitrust & Competition Partner at Arnold ...

In December 2024, the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ASTP/ONC”) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

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.