RamaOnHealthcare June 22, 2016
Meaningful Use Stage 2 has a requirement that I’ve always considered to be the “cart before the horse” – patients must be able to View/Download/Transmit their data. Viewing is great – we’ve done that at BIDMC since 1999 for all patients and all data. Download makes little sense since at the moment there is nothing a patient can do with a download. Of the 2 million patients at BIDMC, not one has ever requested a download. Transmit makes even less sense since there is no place to transmit the data to.
All of this will change with Apple iOS 10. What has Apple done? As an extension to HealthKit, they’ve built a CCDA viewer which can display transition of care...
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