“Last month I posted the testimony I submitted to the Adoption/Certification Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee. (I urge interested parties to review the links to other resources in that post.) Today Paul Egerman, chair of that team, circulated a preliminary draft of recommendations from that meeting. Here is my response tonight, edited a bit for clarity.
My original testimony urged a policy of letting patients see their records essentially on demand, not within 30-60 days as currently allowed by HIPAA. To encourage that, I also recommend that we mandate amnesty for errors that are found in the record. I believe no other path can lead rapidly to the goal I think we should all share: to produce better care for patients in hospitals today.”
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e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net, 17 March 2010
