EHR Intelligence January 9, 2019
Health data sharing and availability is still problematic in the healthcare sector, with many patients struggling to access their own health data, according to ONC.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT recently filed a 22-page report to Congress on EHR adoption across the healthcare sector, finding health data sharing and availability is flawed.
The annual progress report to Congress highlights nationwide health IT infrastructure progress around electronic access and the use of health data to improve U.S. healthcare delivery. The latest report released late December covers the timeline between November 2016 and October 2018.
“As of 2015, 96 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals and 78 percent of office-based physicians adopted certified health IT,” the report authors...
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