Patient Engagement January 9, 2018
Sara Heath

The ONC’s Trust Exchange Framework touts easy patient health data access a high priority in data interoperability going forward.

Patient health data access is a top priority in the draft version of the Trust Exchange Framework released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT last week.

The Framework establishes a set of guidelines to foster health data interoperability, a mandate of the 21st Century Cures Act. A part of this interoperability is ensuring that patients can access their own health data to improve patient engagement.

Seamless patient data access is one of the core principles included in the draft Framework. Arbiters of patient health data must facilitate the following:

  • Patients can easily access their own electronic...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, Cures Act, HIE (Interoperability), HIPAA, Patient / Consumer
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