Editor’s note: After this post was published, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released an Interim Rule extending compliance dates from November 2, 2020, to April 5, 2021. Click here for the announcement and here to stay abreast of further news about the Final Rule. With federal legislation that goes into effect […]
A large national study recently asked how many patients, among a large group given internet access to their medical records, actually use that capability. Disappointingly, confoundingly, after billions of federal dollars spent to incentivize hospitals and physician practices to implement electronic health records, and a well-developed consumer movement trained on gaining electronic access to personal […]
I’m one of more than 17 million Americans who now have access to the visit notes my doctors write after my appointments with them. Here’s what I want my doctors to know: I’m a good listener – really, I am – but when I read my visit notes, I realize that I miss a lot […]