Healthcare Innovation July 29, 2021
In the wake of distressed patients receiving devastating test results prior to consultation with their physicians, AMGA’s leaders are calling on ONC to modify the information-blocking rule to allow for a chance for prior consultation
Leaders at the Alexandria, Va.-based AMGA are urging the senior officials at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to address an unanticipated development that has emerged out of the ONC’s recently implemented rule around “information-blocking.” In fact, what’s happening, as physicians in AMGA-member groups have been sharing with the association, is that patients are in many cases receiving information on the results coming out of diagnostic tests before their physicians can explain the meaning of those results, leading to confusion and...
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