Fierce Health Technology June 4, 2021
A greater proportion of hospitals are allowing patients to view their health information through apps with each passing year, but small, rural, independent and critical access hospitals have consistently been behind the electronic access curve, according to a new government data brief.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) said this week that 7 in 10 hospitals allowed inpatients to access their health information through API-enabled apps as of 2019—a significant jump from the 46% of hospitals that reported the same in 2018.
The proportion of hospitals allowing inpatients to view their clinical notes through a patient portal also increased during that window from 57% to 75%.
Data access through a patient portal has generally remained...
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