Patient Access to Health Information

Final Interoperability Rule Has Implications for APIs, FHIR

March 12, 2020 - Earlier this week, the Office of the National Coordination for Health IT (ONC) announced a new interoperability rule which requires certified health IT developers to establish secure, standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs) to support patient’s access to vital data in their electronic health record (EHR). The 21st Century...

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Consumers Would Use Blockchain-based Tokens to Control EHR Access

by Fred Donovan

Consumers are willing to use blockchain-based tokens for a variety of applications, including using them to control access to their electronic health records (EHR), according to a survey of 1,000 U.S....

NYeC Seeks Vendors for Patient Access, Secure Messaging Platform

by Fred Donovan

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is looking for industry input about a platform that enables patients to access and aggregate their electronic health information and supports secure messaging...

Regional Groups Team to Set Up Great Plains Health Data Network

by Fred Donovan

The Community HealthCare Association of the Dakotas (CHAD) and the Wyoming Primary Care Association are partnering to establish the Great Plains Health Data Network. The network is expected to enable...

Colorado To Get $64M in Federal Funds for Health IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

Colorado is set to receive $64 million in federal funds to invest in health IT infrastructure and to implement the state’s Health IT Roadmap, Governor Jared Polis announced recently. Polis...

ONC: Hospitals Provide Health Data Access, But Many Don’t Use It

by Fred Donovan

Nearly all hospitals provided patients with the ability to electronically view and download their health information in 2017, but fewer than one-quarter of their patients activated access to their...

Gustave Roussy Institut, Embleema Team on Healthcare Blockchain

by Fred Donovan

Gustave Roussy Insitut, a Paris-based cancer center, has formed a partnership with Embleema, a New York-based healthcare blockchain network, to develop blockchain health data sharing applications for...

Healthcare Organizations Need Backup Data Centers for Emergencies

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare organizations should have primary and secondary data centers for redundant operations in the event of a disaster or downtime, advised consulting firm Crowe. These primary and alternative...

Patient Portal Access Has No Effect on Patient Activation

by Fred Donovan

Access to a patient portal had no effect on patient activation for hospitalized patients compared to usual care and tablet-only Internet access, according to a study by Cornell researchers published...

MGH Works with Korean Startup on Healthcare Blockchain Project

by Fred Donovan

Massachusetts General Hospital’s Laboratory of Medical Imaging and Computation is working on a healthcare blockchain project with Korean startup MediBloc for patient data storage and exchange,...

FDA Grants Breakthrough Device Status to Healthcare AI Software

by Fred Donovan

The FDA has granted breakthrough device designation to healthcare AI software being developed by Bayer and Merck for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) pattern recognition. The...

AWS Launches Machine Learning Service to Mine Patient Data

by Fred Donovan

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its Amazon Comprehend Medical machine learning service that enables healthcare professionals and developers to mine unstructured medical text and...

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