Patient Consent Is the Key to Working around Criticism of "Open Notes"

What**'**s**the news. ** Providers can delay posting a patient's test results or diagnosis in the electronic health record (EHR) until they can deliver results to the patient directly, yet avoid violating the information blocking rule in the 21st Century Cures Act by obtaining prior patient consent, a September 17, 2021, MedPage Today article says.