From the North American Primary Care Research Group: NORTH AMERICAN PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH GROUP POSITION STATEMENT ON ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD INFORMATION BLOCKING

Information exchange is critical to ensuring that patients receive the right care, at the right place, and at the right time. Increasingly, this communication depends on the secure, effective, and efficient delivery of information elctronically.1 To ensure health information technology (HIT) investments ultimately lead to greater value, the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act included provisions to develop the infrastructure for health information exchange (HIE).2 In response, health care providers have increasingly adopted and, thus, stored health data in electronic health records (EHRs).