Hospital capabilities to enable patient electronic access to health information, 2021
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- ONC data brief
- Author(s):
- Barker, Wesley, author Charles, Dustin, author
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, October 2022
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Electronic Health Records Hospitals Patient Access to Records Patient Portals United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Over the past several years, federal policy levers have been enacted to increase patient’s access to their health information. In 2014, hospitals were incentivized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program to adopt certified health IT that enabled patients to electronically view, download, and transmit their health information. In 2019, CMS required hospitals to provide their patients with the ability to access their health information via an application programming interface (API) using an app of their choice. In 2020, as part of the Cures Act Final Rule, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) established the Application Programming Interfaces (API) Condition and Maintenance of Certification, which seeks to minimize the “special effort” necessary to access, exchange, and use health electronic health information via certified API technology. This data brief presents the 2021 national estimates on the proportion of U.S. hospitals that enabled patient electronic access to their health information.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (12 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918538386806676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918538386806676