Modern Healthcare March 16, 2017
A federal watchdog group said HHS isn’t doing enough to measure how much patients are using their medical records. The Government Accountability Office also found patients aren’t accessing their medical records because they can’t aggregate all of their information into one medical record, underscoring the need to streamline and standardize systems.
Patients often have to go through different portals for each provider, the GAO said, adding that patients generally have to manage separate login information for each provider-specific portal.
Personal health record technology is available to collect the records, but these systems “are not widely used,” a 55-page GAO report stated.
That is despite the federal government having spent more than $36 billion to incentivize hospitals to buy the technology...
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