In a new post on the Covington Digital Health blog, our colleagues discuss the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announcement of enforcement discretion to “permit compliance flexibilities” for the implementation of the interoperability final rules issued on March 9th, 2020. The final rules are intended to improve patient access to electronic health information (“EHI”) and to standardize the modes of exchanging EHI. Due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, HHS is now extending the implementation deadlines for certain requirements of the final rules. To read the post, please click here.