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The report concludes there is evidence that Medicares new telehealth flexibilities played a critical role in helping to maintain access to primary health care services - when many beneficiaries and providers were concerned with transmission of COVID-19. Future research could examine whether these flexibilities were effective and if telehealth may have improved access to care and health outcomes among underserved beneficiaries.

Prior to the deadline to comply with the ONC interoperability rule, the Sequoia Project has developed the Information Blocking Compliance Boot Camp for healthcare organizations and health IT developer

This is important because current hospitalization data had become the most reliable indicator of the severity of outbreaks in different states, the group said. Unfortunately, now were not sure if some of the erratic changes in hospitalizations that were seeing are due to reporting problems or real changes on the ground.

And transmissions by fax or spreadsheet can require workers to manually re-enter information into their computer systems, increasing the risk of errors or duplicate entries.Some public health officials say theyve been especially vexed by the ubiquity of fax machines, with their blurry printouts and analog data.

With each specialist who walked in the room and made us repeat his story, I bluntly and emotionally asked them: Didnt you read his chart? Didnt you talk to the other physicians?

Online resource to help clinicians answer questions about health IT

As the U.S. reckons with centuries of structural racism, an important step toward making health care more equitable will require transferring control of health records to patients and patient groups.

OpenNotes is invested in the Cures Act because clinical notes are among the information that must not be blockedand thus be made available to patients.

Given that many hospitals still rely on EHR-based CPOE systems provided by the systems vendor, its troubling to hear that patients could be at such risk. The current level of dangerous medication errors which are apparently slipping through the cracks is unacceptable.

Errors in electronic health records (EHRs) are common.1,2 At least half of EHRs may contain an error, many related to medications.2-8 Overburdened practitioners may import inaccurate medication lists, propagate other erroneous information electronically by copying and pasting older parts of the record, or enter erroneous examination findings.2,8,9 EHRs may also lack critical information (errors of omission) because of limited interoperability among health care sites.10 Among primary care physicians sharing notes with patients, 26% anticipated that patients would find nontrivial errors.11 Despite these known problems, systems for checking the accuracy of notes are almost nonexistent.