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STAT+: Top health officials highlight efforts to make medical records more portable
Zac Jiwa, a federal Medicare official, delivered a eulogy of sorts at a Thursday Medicare event highlighting the successes of the Health Tech Ecosystem initiative.
The eulogy’s subject? The clipboard.
For the past eight months, hundreds of health tech companies have been working to meet goals set out by the federal government to make patient records more portable, create systems that import patients’ data into providers’ electronic health records systems, and stand up various patient apps. The idea is that filling out a stack of paperwork at every doctor’s visit, on that ubiquitous clipboard, would be a thing of the past.
Zac Jiwa, a federal Medicare official, delivered a eulogy of sorts at a Thursday Medicare event highlighting the successes of the Health Tech Ecosystem initiative.
The eulogy’s subject? The clipboard.
For the past eight months, hundreds of health tech companies have been working to meet goals set out by the federal government to make patient records more portable, create systems that import patients’ data into providers’ electronic health records systems, and stand up various patient apps. The idea is that filling out a stack of paperwork at every doctor’s visit, on that ubiquitous clipboard, would be a thing of the past.
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So much news today that I didn’t have space to write an item about hot tubs as a breeding ground for Legionnaires’ disease. Here’s the CDC report, if you’re curious.
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