Trump Administration Wants to Take On Medical-Records Puzzle
- Health records ‘hold patients, and their information, hostage’
- Earlier attempts to improve health data sharing have stumbled
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The Trump administration wants Americans to have greater access to their medical data, a top health official said at a health-technology conference.
The question of how information from medical records can be shared securely with patients and among different health-care providers has long vexed the industry. While many health-care records have been digitized in the past decade, hospitals and doctors haven’t yet realized broad productivity gains from the transformation.