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...
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...
