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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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STAT+: Truveta enlists health systems, drugmakers to launch ambitious new genomic database

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The genetic data, cross-referenced with the patients’ de-identified medical records, will be available for purchase for researchers and life sciences companies. Pharmaceutical company Regeneron has invested $119.5

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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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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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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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STAT+: ‘Apples to apples’: How new health data rules could hold providers accountable

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Last year, medical records opened up to patients. Before the ball drops on New Year’s Eve, electronic health care record vendors will have to provide tools to easily pull big batches of patient data from their systems. This year, they’re opening up to the nation. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…