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My Regulations dot gov comment analysis of 97 submissions on the Imaging Interop RFI is up and ready at https://t.co/fsO7u7hidD Quick summary article here...
Direct implications for Health IT licensing -- as HTI-5 proposes AI/RPA as a first-class means of "access"/"use" of health information.
HIPAA guarantees patients a right to their own medical records. In practice, most health systems require patients to fill out a release-of-information form designed for a different legal purpose; justify why they want their own data; and wait. I sampled...
SMART Health IT team submitted formal comments on HTI-5. Feel free to read and borrow language. Briefly: Deregulation should not mean losing sight of whether interoperability is actually working. (HTI-5 risks eliminating the instrumentation ASTP/ONC needs to steer a successful...
It's 2026, so... I just wrote a Claude Skill that faxes a request form to my healthcare provider.
I analyzed the mandatory "EHI Export" documentation for essentially every certified EHR on the market. Read on for the full picture; examples of the good, the bad, and the ugly; and recommendations for ONC, vendors, and patients to improve access...
Your human users might only read the visible content in your page, but bots read the HTML comments :-) I appreciated this nugget from my EHI Export analysis, and I have to say that I agree with "kendra/sli", they had...
