EHR Intelligence January 28, 2020
Although Epic supports patient data access within the HHS interoperability rule, the company recommends ONC prevents privacy risks for patients and family members.
Epic Systems entered uncharted territory on Monday when the EHR vendor released a statement on its homepage stating it strongly agrees with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to support patient data access.
However, the ONC rule needs to be carefully crafted as to protect patient privacy, the EHR vendor behemoth said.
“For decades, Epic has been enabling this access, starting with the creation of the MyChart patient portal 20 years ago,” wrote Epic, which does not typically comment on national policy issues, in the statement. “From there, Lucy (2010) allowed patients to...
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