MedCity News June 7, 2021
The number of hospitals providing patients electronic access to their health information via apps has increased exponentially over the past decade. But small, rural, critical access and independent hospitals were still falling significantly behind their counterparts as of 2019, a new ONC report shows.
Though the proportion of hospitals enabling patients to access health information using applications increased by more than 50% between 2018 and 2019, independent, rural and critical access hospitals still lagged behind their counterparts, according to a new government report.
Released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the report assessed the proportion of U.S. hospitals that enabled patients to electronically access their health information. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services required...
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