HealthIT Answers November 27, 2022
Data Liberation Day! No, it’s not an official designation. And don’t fret if no one invited you to a Data Liberation Day cookout. But October 6, 2022, was indeed an important day in healthcare—it marked the lifting of most information-blocking rules, as designated in the 21st Century Cures Act. In other words, healthcare organizations are now legally required to give patients full access to their health records. Up until the rule went into effect, health systems and associated entities could decide how much information patients could get.
What patients are able to do with that data is another matter. The increased transparency should, in theory, give patients a better means to assess the care they’re receiving, understand how much it...
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