Summary
Final rule that amends the information blocking regulations in 45 CFR part 171 by revising the Privacy and Infeasibility exceptions and adding a new Protecting Care Access exception, which specifies circumstances in which actors may restrict access, exchange, or use of electronic health information without it constituting information blocking when doing so helps protect patients and clinicians from legal risks related to reproductive health care.
Healthcare Implications
Changes the conditions under which providers, health information networks, and health IT developers may decline to share certain reproductive-health-related EHI, reshaping the data environment that AI-enabled tools depend on and requiring organizations to update information blocking compliance programs, governance of health information exchange, and associated risk assessments for clinical and analytics systems.