Health IT vendors generally express support for HHS info blocking disincentives

When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this past week issued its

codifying the financial disincentives to be levied by its Office for Civil Rights against provider organizations found to have committed information blocking, reaction was swift and mostly dissatisfied from industry groups.

The point of such penalties, which could be significant for noncompliant health systems, is obviously to dissuade organizations…