The recommendations focused on patient access to data, clinical interoperability and the capacity for health IT research to improve patient care. A few immediate action items included clarifying a patient’s right to access their data under HIPAA and encouraging adoption of certified health IT products.
In tandem with the briefing, AMIA published a paper listing the policy recommendations in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and released a set of key policy action items.
“These recommendations are meant to help decision-makers understand that the idealized vision for our digitized healthcare system is within grasp,” said lead author Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information in Ann Arbor. “Coordination — above all else — is how we take the health IT tools of today and achieve the promise of better patient care of tomorrow.”
View the published paper and action items here.
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