Urology Times February 19, 2024
“Urologists may wish to review their policies for patient portal, responding to requests for records, and supporting the concept of a shared electronic record,” writes Robert A. Dowling, MD.
I recently wrote about the evolution of patient access to health care information from the age of “information asymmetry,”where only providers held medical records, to the current expectation of timely, unrestricted patient access to a shared record.1 This transition has been enabled by the ubiquitous implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule’s right of access, and—separately—Section 4004 of the 21st Century Cures Act. The latter defined a new concept called “information blocking,” which holds certain entities accountable for behaviors that impede patients’...
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