23 Mar New Pact to Make Electronic Health Records ‘Work Better’

By: Dan Mangan
Source: CNBC.com

Is getting your health records finally about to become as easy as booking an Uber?

The Obama administration on Monday night announced a new agreement with major hospital systems and leading electronic health record vendors to make it easier for patients to access those digital records, reduce barriers to sharing the information between health providers, and standardize technology that would better allow communication across the platforms containing patient data.

The agreement involves vendors that provide 90 percent of the electronic health records (EHRs) to U.S. hospitals, as well as health-care systems in 46 states, including the nation’s five biggest private health systems.

More than a dozen professional health organizations also have signed on to the agreement, the latest step in the transition from a system that once relied on paper to document a patient’s medical history to one that relies on electronic bytes for that task.

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