As Healthcare Informatics reported last month, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a report in early April that highlighted what the federal healthcare IT agency referred to as “information-blocking.” As Senior Editor Gabriel Perna noted in his April 10 report immediately following the release of the ONC document, “The report’s authors and researchers detailed several examples of electronic health record (EHR) developers and health systems blocking health information sharing between each other.

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