Ammon Fillmore

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AHLA's Speaking of Health Law · Information Blocking Enforcement on the Horizon: Compliance Under the 21st Century Cures Act · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

Whether you're using eClinicalWorks, you're using Epic, Oracle Help, whomever it may be, they're your business associate.

And the commentary in the original information blocking regulations, it's pretty clear that a business associate

can't act outside of the scope of the authority that you as a covered entity have granted to that business associate.

And so it's something and it's a conversation that we have with those entities who qualify as an H.I.T.

developer, whether or not they may be creating a tool that enables this.

But that's very different from us saying you're helping us to have a tool to enable us to comply with information blocking versus we are empowering you to essentially act on our behalf.

To exchange that information.

And so we we try to be very mindful that, you know, as the covered entity, the burden is on us to make sure that we're appropriately, you know, for protecting it.

So, right.

Because, again, right.

It's not and I'm not getting the word for word, but.

It's pretty clear in the commentary, information blocking is not an affirmative defense to a HIPAA violation.

And so it's a really fine line that we have to continue to walk with our HIT developers and our HIEs to make sure that we're staying in the appropriate swim lanes.

And just to kind of give you another example where it comes into play with state laws.

So we're across nine different states.

Different states have more restrictive privacy laws than HIPAA, right?

So take, for example, Texas has laws around release of lab results regarding HIV tests, right?

Not something under law that we just automatically push to the portal, right?

For really good reason.

And so it's one of those where when we're doing deployments,

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