Information-Blocking Requirements to Expand Starting Oct. 6; Medicine Requests Delay

Since April 2021, federal rules requiring physicians to give patients prompt access to their electronic health information (EHI) have been focused on a narrow subset of those data. Starting Oct. 6, however, the so-called information-blocking requirements are set to broaden that scope significantly. Since April 2021, federal rules requiring physicians to give patients prompt access to their electronic health information (EHI) have been focused on a narrow subset of those data. Starting Oct. 6, however, the so-called information-blocking requirements are set to broaden that scope significantly.