JAMA Network August 14, 2019
Introduction
Recent policy efforts have enhanced patients’ access to their electronic health information with a foundational component that allows them to download health record data to their smartphones.1 To enable this, health systems first deploy a set of technical and security standards that offer patients access to their electronic health information; patients must then activate the connection between their health system’s records and their smartphones. Patients who activate this connection go beyond viewing their data on a patient portal by transmitting data elements, such as current medications, test results, and immunization history, to a smartphone, where they can control them. Ultimately, the vision is for the emergence of an ecosystem in which third-party applications help patients and their clinicians and...
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