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STAT+: Hospitals struggle to validate AI-generated clinical summaries. ‘It’s a bit chaotic’

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As an intern at Duke University Medical Center in the ’90s, he’d sometimes be tasked with poring through a patient’s medical history to uncover the cause of their latest hospitalization. Back then, the stacks of paper records could tower 18 inches tall.

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Opinion: Charging patients to message their doctors mostly benefits major hospital systems

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Some hospital systems have started charging patients for digital messages to their doctors via the electronic medical record, either a flat rate (like a copay) or on sliding scale depending on the time or complexity of the physician’s response. Thinking about messaging your physician about a weird rash?

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STAT+: Why U.S. health care cybersecurity laws are better at protecting a corpse’s privacy than patients’ lives

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Two days into a cyberattack on his hospital system, Nate Couture reached the end of his cyber incident plan. ’” But it would be 24 more days from where the plan ended until the Vermont health system was able to bring its electronic medical record system back online.

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How blockchain can revolutionise medical records and save lives

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If appropriately implemented, blockchain-based medical records systems of tomorrow could be far more accurate, secure and accessible than the one-size-fits-all approach applied to today’s electronic health records, all while putting additional power back in the hands of the patients. The state of medical records today.

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STAT+: HHS finalizes penalties for providers resorting to ‘information blocking’

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The federal government has cemented a key part of its strategy for making patients’ medical records transfer easier: setting disincentives for providers engaging in what’s known as “information blocking.”

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Opinion: The staggering financial burden of a proposed HIPAA rule

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health care system is facing a new and costly threat that will affect patient care and ultimately may lead to hospital closures : paying for and processing a torrent of medical record requests. The already beleaguered U.S.

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Opinion: Medical experts must step up if health justice is to enter the courtroom

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Saadi Ghatan, a professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and director of pediatric neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Hospital, reviewed Chandler’s neuroimaging and medical records in 2021 on behalf of the Southern Center for Human Rights, a legal nonprofit that represents Smith.