TechCrunch May 7, 2020
Rish Joshi

If you’ve ever been stuck using a health provider’s clunky online patient portal or had to make multiple calls to transfer medical records, you know how difficult it is to access your health data.

In an era when control over personal data is more important than ever before, the healthcare industry has notably lagged behind — but that’s about to change. This past month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published two final rules around patient data access and interoperability that will require providers and payers to create APIs that can be used by third-party applications to let patients access their health data.

This means you will soon have consumer apps that will plug into your clinic’s...

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Topics: Apps, Digital Health, EMR / EHR, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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