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Medical data sharing: Are we there yet?

July 20, 2023 admin Compliance, Data Privacy, Electronic Health Records, healthcare industry, hipaa

Fifteen years ago, if you entered an emergency room a thousand miles from home, the ER doctors would not have had access to potentially lifesaving information in your medical records, such as your allergies or a list of drugs you were taking. Only 10% of US hospitals had electronic health record (EHR) systems, and health record requests were typically sent in paper form by mail or fax machine. Then the federal government stepped in, providing billions of dollars in EHR incentives to help hospitals get online.

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Fed rule on patient access to healthcare data gets EMR vendor pushback

January 30, 2020 admin Electronic Health Records, Emerging Technology, Health Care Industry, it governance, privacy, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 03:00:00 -0800

The largest electronic medical record (EMR) vendor in the U.S. is fighting a proposed government rule to allow patients and their physicians greater access to electronic health information – regardless of the technology platform – to promote data exchange.

According to a number of recent reports, EMR vendor Epic Systems is lookng to derail the finalization of a rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that would implement some provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act. In particular, the rules governing information-blocking of patient healthcare information and EMR interoperability are at the heart of the fight.

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Why wearables, health records and clinical trials need a blockchain injection

April 29, 2019 admin analytics, BlockChain, Electronic Health Records, Health Care Industry, Security

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 03:00:00 -0700

TORONTO – The opportunity exists in healthcare to hand over control of medical records to patients who can choose not only what info providers can see but what personal data gets added to records via wearables, genomics and even lifestyle choices.

And once patients begin accumulating more data about themselves in personal health records (PHRs), they can opt to anonymize that information and sell it to researchers, vastly expanding the pool of information available for clinical studies.

Because no data is as sensitive as a medical record, being able to assure its security and immutability through blockchain encryption represents a unique opportunity to “repatriate” and “monetize” that record for the patient, according to Dr. Eric Hoskins, chair of Canada’s Federal Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare.

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