Healthcare IT Today June 15, 2021
So, after investing what feels like infinite levels of effort, patient medical records are digitized across nearly all hospitals in the US, according to a new ONC Data Brief. Great.
However, at least when this data was collected in 2019, hospitals were still playing their little passive-aggressive game where they make the data available to patients but hard to get to colleagues and competitors.
To me, this suggests that even with Information Blocking rules firmly in place now, hospitals are likely to find ways to impede the provider-to-provider data sharing process. We are talking about a 10-year tantrum even ONC won’t be able to calm down completely.
It’s not that the health information sharing process isn’t maturing. Things are indeed...
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