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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is locking in its enforcement strategy to keep healthcare providers from blocking access to electronic health information.
On Monday morning the department released its final rule (PDF) outlining disincentives for eligible hospitals or critical access hospitals, clinician groups and accountable care organizations (ACOs) found to have committed information blocking.
Its broad strokes are largely the same as the proposed rule HHS shared last fall, which outlined financial repercussions tied to Medicare program participation as well as the public disclosure of healthcare providers hit with information-blocking enforcement.