Fierce Healthcare April 4, 2018
Patients were nearly twice as likely to access their medical information online when encouraged by a provider.
The federal government’s health IT agency has released a new resource to help patients access their health data, following a new initiative to give consumers more control of their medical information.
The new guide, released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) builds on provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act that requires the agency to improve patient access to electronic health information, and also supports the MyHealthEData initiative unveiled last month by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma.
New data released (PDF) by ONC shows 52% of consumers were offered online access to...
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