In our last article, we talked about how healthcare interoperability is insanely complex. In it we shared some of the technical nuances of keeping health data...
Patient Data Access
The healthcare world is flush with data and every health system seems to have a portal to access some of that data. However, far too often that data sits...
A new survey by Surescripts has concluded that patients are unhappy with their access to their healthcare data, and that they’d like to see the way in which...
As most readers probably know, U.S. doctors are skittish about giving patients full access to their medical records. That fact was underscored by a recent...
While doctors may not be completely comfortable with granting patients access to their EHR data, new evidence suggests that doing so produces significant...
As we’ve noted countless times in this space, EMRs aren’t going to get any better unless vendors and doctors communicate freely. But what about...
Recently, on The Healthcare Blog, there was a really interesting post by Dr. Marya Silberberg about why patient lab data should be liberated. She recommends...