Becker's Healthcare August 19, 2019
Despite a federal push to increase patients’ access to their medical data with application programming interfaces and smartphone-based apps, only a small number of patients who use their provider’s EHR patient portal are also using APIs to send the data to their smartphones, according to a recent study.
For the Aug. 14 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open, UC San Francisco and UC San Diego Health researchers analyzed 12 health systems that allowed patients to download their health records to their smartphones. Each of the organizations had to have offered patients the feature for at least nine months. The health systems all use an Epic EHR, and researchers collected data from March 2018...
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