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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: Bloated patient records are filled with false information, thanks to copy-paste

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I recently took care of a patient whose medical records included multiple notes about her past open-heart surgery. Only she had never undergone open-heart surgery. Read the rest…

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

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“I can remember that needle in the haystack feeling,” said Bart, now chief medical information officer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, “when you found that one thing in the medical record that helps us figure this out.”

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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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“We make these incident response plans and we feel great about them,” Couture, the University of Vermont Health Network chief information security officer, told other heath care cyber professionals at a recent conference. And more than 200 days later, they’d still be dealing with the backlog of paper records.

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STAT+: Epic Systems v. Particle: What the Carequality investigation reveals about the dispute

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Late Tuesday night, Carequality released new information about its investigation into the dispute between electronic health records vendor Epic Systems and health data startup Particle Health that has now escalated into an antitrust lawsuit.

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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…