What patients think, or even know, what they’re entitled to know about their own medical record and what physicians and health systems think a patient should have access to continues to vex both sides of the equation, but the scale is tilting more toward a patient-focused mentality, even among regulators.
Joy Pritts, the former chief privacy officer for HHS, detailed the lengthy process and evolving regulations and attitudes around access to medical records by patients, arguing that “knowledge is power” at ENGAGE in Bethesda.
Read Dan Verel’s complete article on the MedCity website.
