HHS Announces Crackdown on Health Data Blocking HHS announced that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has directed HHS to increase resources dedicated to curbing the harmful practice of information blocking.

Behind the nauseating bluster and rhetoric, one point of light from HHS: A commitment to enforcing the prohibition on #informationblocking. We’ll see if there’s any truth to this or if it’s just the latest example of ‘truthiness’ emanating from the swamp. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h... #healthIT

How could I forget, the audience for this #InformationBlocking resource includes all IB regulated actors (that is, providers, HIE/HINs, and HealthIT developers regulated by the Information Blocking Rules).

Information Sharing Workgroup Interoperability Matters The Information Blocking Compliance Workgroup is now the Information Sharing Workgroup Experts across a wide range stakeholders

And if you're not familiar with Information Blocking and/or want to see how such a complex and nuanced regulatory requirement was broken down into it's key parts, see the slide from @fhirball.bsky.social pasted above.

Link to Toolkit: sequoiaproject.org/interoperabi...

#InformationBlocking

New year, new resource from the The Sequoia Project's #InteroperabilityMatters Information Sharing Workgroup:

The Information Sharing Toolkit, including an Information Blocking Exception Workflow Map (for Manner, Fees, and Licensing)

#InformationBlocking

1100+ #informationblocking complains submitted, still the vast majority by patients against providers.

No, not every patient wants access to their record, but it's critical we get it easily and in a consumable way to the ones that do.

#Sequoia2024

The Sequoia Project Addresses Health Data Information Sharing with Educational Toolkit Information Sharing Workgroup Builds on Materials and Good Practices for Health Information Exchange Guidance...

In better news - a thing I helped create got published today. I'm really proud of it.

Also, thank you @histalk.bsky.social for the one-liner about it in your update today as well, that was really cool.

#informationblocking #healthIT #medsky

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Information Sharing Toolkit

Hey #MedSky if you are a Provider, HIE/HIN, HealthIT Developer, and therefore subject to the #InformationBlocking Rule, you NEED this resource developed by the Sequoia Project Information Sharing Workgroup to inform your compliance work.

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It adjusted #InformationBlocking exceptions to provide regulatory guardrails to protect actors who withhold reproductive health data (“Protecting Care Access”) in alignment with the recent #HIPAA modification

I doubt there will be '1 #EHR to rule them all' because whats more important are systems that are #interoperable and, thankfully, that's where healthcare is heading globally #FHIR #Sparked, away from proprietary systems where #informationblocking is a core component of an outdated business model (2)

Welcome - Sparked Join the Sparked Initiative: Shaping the Future of Australian Healthcare Sparked is a community comprising government, technology vendors, provider organisations, peak bodies, practitioners, […]

For those of you for whom #Sparked on #FHIR is new. Basically its an Australian-wide initiative to make sure our health infornation and diverse health system is #interoperable No more proprietary APIs and no #Informationblocking It’s industry+clinical+govt led. Very cool! 😎 sparked.csiro.au