Healthcare IT News November 14, 2019
Despite HIPAA’s right of access rule, and CMS and ONC prioritizing consumer access in their forthcoming 21st Century Cures regs, a new scorecard shows that providers have work to do.
“Patients need their records, and it shouldn’t be hard to get them,” says Deven McGraw, chief regulatory officer at Ciitizen, a startup founded in 2017 that develops tools to help patients access, manage and share their medical records.
There’s a reason Ciitizen has a market for its services. Because, unfortunately, “the majority of medical record providers are not compliant” with the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s right of access provisions, according to the company.
This past summer, Ciitizen launched its Patient Record Scorecard, which assesses providers nationwide and assigns them a score...
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