HHS issues seven nonconformity letters in crackdown on health data blocking
ByChristian Robles,
Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW
October 19, 2026 06:03 PM ET
The Trump administration is seeking to give patients access to electronic health information through the enforcement of regulations and “troubleshooting call[s].”
Santa Fe, N.M. — The Health and Human Services Department has issued seven letters of potential nonconformity to companies that may have illegally blocked access to health data, an agency official said.
The companies receiving letters have been able to remediate allegations of restricted data access and “for the most part, folks have said, ‘you know what, you're right, we shouldn't have been doing this, and we're going to change our behavior,’” Thomas Keane, the national coordinator for health information technology, said Thursday at the ADAPT conference. He did not disclose which companies received the letters.
Still, the previously unreported number of letters of potential nonconformity is the Trump administration’s latest step to...
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