MedCity News April 19, 2024
Michael Dershem

The availability of innovative technologies affords us the opportunity to chart a more patient-centric, efficient, and secure path to managing and leveraging PHI.

Empowering individuals to take a more active role in managing their health and improving health outcomes requires ready access to their personal health information (PHI). Unfortunately, a variety of technology, financial, and policy barriers make it difficult to achieve this critical objective while simultaneously protecting health data.

The lack of interoperability among the current electronic health record (EHR) technology platforms is a key challenge to sharing data — as anyone who has ever tried to transfer PHI among providers in different health systems can attest. Siloing of data among disparate systems contributes to the fragmenting of...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), HIPAA, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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