Radiology Business October 2, 2023
The information-blocking rule under the 21st Century Cures Act—requiring providers to grant patients immediate access to their radiology reports—appears to have no impact on patient complaints.
That’s according to a new single-center analysis from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, published Friday in JAMA Health Forum [1]. The Cures Act first went into effect in December 2016 and entered its first compliance phase in April 2021. It aims to help increase patient access to health information, also including consultation notes, physical exams, lab and pathology work, and discharge summaries.
To better understand the law’s impact, researchers at VUMC analyzed nearly 8,500 unsolicited patient complaints, logged at their institution between 2020 and 2022. They found that such grievances increased from over 3,000 in...
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