HHS Offers Online Guide for Accessing EMRs

More Americans are accessing their personal electronic medical records, and find the data helpful and easy to use, but policymakers say half of the nation doesn’t see a need to do so.

The federal government today released a new online guide to help patients and their caregivers access personal electronic health records.

The guide, put out by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, is designed to support the 21st Century Cures Actgoal of improving patient access to electronic health information, and the MyHealthEData initiative , HHS said.

“It’s important that patients and their caregivers have access to their own health information so they can make decisions about their care...