EHR Intelligence October 6, 2022
Hannah Nelson

The Ciitizen Cures Gateway aims to help HIEs and other data providers support patient data access and comply with information blocking regulations.

Information blocking provisions of the 21st Cures Act require health information exchanges (HIEs) to support patient data access.

However, stakeholders did not build HIE infrastructure for this use case, according to Deven McGraw, MPH, JD, lead for data stewardship & data sharing at health IT vendor Invitae.

“It’s not accessible to patients,” McGraw said during a Civitas 2022 Annual Conference presentation. “It wasn’t built in order to enable access to patients. It was built to enable physicians to access.”

To help HIEs empower patients with data, Invitae created the Ciitizen Cures Gateway, a nationwide health information exchange...

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Topics: Cures Act, Equity/SDOH, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Healthcare System, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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