By Leigh Burchell (Altera Digital Health), Vice Chair, EHRA Information Blocking Compliance Task Force

The EHR Association is committed to preventing information blocking and supporting efforts to share electronic health information to better patient care. As such, our Information Blocking Compliance Task Force collaborated over the past two years with stakeholders across the industry to address regulatory questions and further information exchange.

Our collaboration has produced “Good Information Sharing Practices,” a collection of best practices for health IT developers. The Practices are a practical list of proactive actions health IT developers can undertake to demonstrate their strong support for access, use, and exchange of health information and compliance with information blocking regulations. These include detailed recommendations on: