Healthcare IT News July 12, 2017
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT outlined several actionable steps that hospitals and doctors can take today to improve the process of requesting medical data to the benefit of both patients and providers.
Despite more medical data being stored in EHRs than ever before, patients and caregivers still are struggling to access that information when and how they need it.
“I don’t think patients would say they have free access to the data,” Donald Rucker, MD, head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT said in a press call on Tuesday. “It’s patchy, and I think we can do better with today’s computer science.”
To that end, ONC called for human-centered design methods to...
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