Epic allows patient data access to providers without EHRs

Healthcare DIVE September 14, 2017
Meg Bryant

Dive Brief:

• Epic announced the launch a new global interoperability platform called Share Everywhere.
• The technology lets patients grant access to their personal data to any provider with internet access, regardless of whether they have EHRs. Providers can also send progress notes to the patient’s primary care organization, enhancing care coordination and continuity.
• The technology builds on Epic’s Care Everywhere technology, which allows organizations to exchange patient records between Epic and non-Epic systems. Some 2 million records move about on Care Everywhere on a daily basis, according to Epic.

Dive Insight:

Using their smartphones, patients can forward a view of their Epic chart to any clinician. The patient determines who has access and Epic records each exchange.

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