The Long & Winding Road to the Information Blocking Rule

Electronic Health Information Sharing and Patient Portals Hailed as Data Liberation Day by the government, the Information Blocking Rule (IBR) went into effect on October 6, 2022. This health policy is really about information sharing and empowering the patient to...

Provider Obligations For Patient Portals Under The 21st Century Cures Act

When Congress prohibited “information blocking” under the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016, it made no reference to patient portals, the websites through which many healthcare providers share clinical information with their patients. Similarly, the word “portal” does not appear once in...

It’s time to retire the Attending Physician Statement

Digital health records are now ready to eliminate the inefficiency of the APS Authored by: Steve Malik, Founder & CEO, Greenlight Health Data Solutions We have all experienced the frustration of having to re-enter personal information several times, on various...