Fundamentally, patient data access is about improving overall patient engagement and empowerment in care. Since meaningful use mandated patient portal adoption, the logic has dictated that a more informed patient would be a more educated and thus more engaged patient. Healthcare providers who have offered patient portal and clinical note access have seen a difference…
Socially Determined, the Washington, D.C.-based technology company that measures the impacts of the social determinants of health (SDOH), has developed Digital Landscape, a new metric for assessing digital equity as an SDOH component. Using Digital Landscape, organizations can assess equity “within a population or community and the impact it has on health outcomes and business performance.”…
Alma Trotter published an important whitepaper this week that highlights the importance of CMS’ role as an operator in addition to health industry regulator on enabling patient digital access to their health information. As a passionate supporter of the CARIN Alliance (whose mantra for consumers is “access to more data, with less friction”), I’ve celebrated Ciitizen’s Patient Record Scorecard and in…