Healthcare DIVE December 16, 2025
The influential senator pressed 10 health IT and EHR firms to implement features that give patients more control over the flow of their health data.
Dive Brief:
- An influential lawmaker is pushing electronic health record vendors to adopt features that allow patients more control over their medical data in a bid to boost cybersecurity.
- In a letter sent to 10 health IT and EHR firms, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., pointed to a feature adopted by Epic, the nation’s largest EHR vendor, that notifies patients about which healthcare organizations have access to their medical records and lets them opt out of data sharing.
- Wyden asked the vendors if their patient portals have similar functionality and whether they’d commit to...
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