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An estimated 92 percent of the U.S. population's medical data is shared via health information exchanges, according to a recent Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative survey.

Despite a federal push to increase patients' access to their medical data with application programming interfaces and smartphone-based apps, only a small number of patients who use their provider's EHR patient portal are also using APIs to send the data…

Health information exchange networks Missouri Health Connection and Kansas Health Information Network formed an agreement Aug. 12 that will allow the organizations to share EHR data of more than 20 million combined patients across the Midwest.

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