Patient Engagement May 3, 2021
Sara Heath

After offering patient access to clinical notes, 44 percent of clinicians shifted from having a negative to a positive view of the practice.

Clinicians continue to embrace patient access to clinical notes, according to new data, a good shift considering the requirements recently enforced under the 21st Century Cures Act.

The study of about 200 clinicians, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, showed that 44 percent of providers changed their view of patient access to clinical notes from negative to positive after implementing the strategy in their own practice.

These findings come as clinicians become beholden to patient data access under new provisions in the 21st Century Cures Act. Specifically, information blocking rules out of the Office of...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Survey / Study, Technology, Trends
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