‘Prohibited Disclosure’ – Behavioral Health Locked Out Of HIEs

December 5, 2012
At our Technology & Informatics Institute last October, there was a session that gave me pause. In our Townhall Session sponsored by Defran Systems, How EHRs & HIEs Are Shaping Integration: A Specialist Provider's Guide To Coordination With Primary Care, there was a robust discussion of the role of health information exchanges in the emerging integrated service systems. What I had not realized is how many health information exchanges (HIEs) have excluded behavioral health provider organizations from participation.

The reason? Very strict interpretation of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations (see Code of Federal . . .