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UT Austin, Jericho System’s National Pilot Aims to Increase Patient Control Over Shared Data

The Health Information Technology Program at the University of Texas at Austin and Jericho Systems Corp. have announced a national pilot program to increase patient control over shared medical records and data.

By: Staff

Thursday, July 11th, 2013

Recently approved by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the program will simulate the exchange of records under patient-specified security conditions. Additionally, the program will investigate ways that information on requests for a patient’s data can be transferred back to the patient.

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