Fierce Health Payers January 15, 2020
Heather Landi

Patients’ right to control their health must include the right to access and control of their health information, ONC officials said in a new draft health IT strategic plan.

Federal health IT officials released on Wednesday a draft strategic plan that outlines priorities over the next five years with a focus on pushing the industry to make more patients’ health data accessible through smartphone apps and application programming interfaces (APIs).

The draft plan outlines federal health information technology goals and objectives to ensure that individuals have access to their electronic health information to help enable them to manage their health and shop for care, according to officials with the Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)...

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Topics: Apps, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), ONC, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Provider, Technology
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