45 CFR Part 171
PART 171—INFORMATION BLOCKING
- PART 171—INFORMATION BLOCKING
- Subtitle A—Department of Health and Human Services › Subchapter D—Health Information Technology
- Subpart A—General Provisions
- § 171.100 Statutory basis and purpose.
- § 171.101 Applicability.
- § 171.102 Definitions.
- § 171.103 Information blocking.
- Subpart B—Exceptions That Involve Not Fulfilling Requests to Access, Exchange, or Use Electronic Health Information
- § 171.200 Availability and effect of exceptions.
- § 171.201 Preventing harm exception—when will an actor's practice that is likely to interfere with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information in order to prevent harm not be considered information blocking?
- § 171.202 Privacy exception—When will an actor's practice of not fulfilling a request to access, exchange, or use electronic health information in order to protect an individual's privacy not be considered information blocking?
- § 171.203 Security exception—When will an actor's practice that is likely to interfere with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information in order to protect the security of electronic health information not be considered information blocking?
- § 171.204 Infeasibility exception—When will an actor's practice of not fulfilling a request to access, exchange, or use electronic health information due to the infeasibility of the request not be considered information blocking?
- § 171.205 Health IT performance exception—When will an actor's practice that is implemented to maintain or improve health IT performance and that is likely to interfere with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information not be considered information blocking?
- § 171.206 Protecting Care Access—When will an actor's practice that is likely to interfere with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information in order to reduce potential exposure to legal action not be considered information blocking?
- Subpart C—Exceptions That Involve Procedures for Fulfilling Requests to Access, Exchange, or Use Electronic Health Information
- § 171.300 Availability and effect of exceptions.
- § 171.301 Manner exception—When will an actor's practice of limiting the manner in which it fulfills a request to access, exchange, or use electronic health information not be considered information blocking?
- § 171.302 Fees exception—When will an actor's practice of charging fees for accessing, exchanging, or using electronic health information not be considered information blocking?
- § 171.303 Licensing exception—When will an actor's practice to license interoperability elements in order for electronic health information to be accessed, exchanged, or used not be considered information blocking?
- Subpart D—Exceptions That Involve Practices Related to Actors' Participation in The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCASM)
- § 171.400 Availability and effect of exceptions.
- § 171.401 Definitions.
- § 171.402 [Reserved]
- § 171.403 TEFCA manner exception—When will an actor's practice of limiting the manner in which it fulfills a request to access, exchange, or use electronic health information to only via TEFCA not be considered information blocking?
- Subparts E-I [RESERVED]
- Subpart J—Disincentives for Information Blocking by Health Care Providers
- § 171.1000 Scope.
- § 171.1001 Disincentives.
- § 171.1002 Notice of disincentive.
- Subpart K—Transparency for Information Blocking Determinations, Disincentives, and Penalties
- § 171.1100 Scope.
- § 171.1101 Posting of information for actors found to have committed information blocking.
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