Healthcare DIVE October 20, 2017
Dive Brief:
- Patient engagement is seen as a key way to improve patient and population health, but HIPAA often prevents providers from properly engaging patients, according to a recent New England Journal of Medicine report.
- The authors said that, despite its potential, patient engagement remains suboptimal, which is affecting healthcare quality and spending.
- One possible solution is for providers to let patients opt into a system that allows sharing of protected health information. That might require amending existing HIPAA regulations, but could meaningfully “improve patient engagement with the healthcare system — and therefore health outcomes — while restricting patient autonomy,” according to the report.
Dive Insight:
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