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Empowering Patients with their Health Record in a Modern Health IT Economy

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In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy focus on the ONC’s Cures Act Final Rule and how it will benefit the patient and healthcare industry.

Here is what they discussed:

  • “The new rule puts the patients first in terms of health technology.”
    • Vik explains that by putting the patient first in terms of health technology enables the health care industry to give patients transparency into the cost and outcome of their care. The duo go over more benefits of the rule including: giving patients the option to shop around for healthcare, having convenient and reliable access to their medical records, and creating a boom in the app economy.
  • “I think innovation is going to go through the roof for smartphone apps.”
    • Vik elaborates on how the new rule gives room for innovation that developers can take advantage of. It can allow for a patient to choose from a number of apps that specifically caters to their healthcare needs.
  • “It’s going to improve the healthcare service provided to the patient…”
    • Jimmy asks how the new rule could affect clinics. Vik explains that the data will be accessible for everyone to see the outcomes of clinics, which will forces poorer performing clinics to improve their services. Vik and Jimmy discuss potential security and privacy concerns. Vik addresses these by discussing security protocols already used in other industries, such as banking, which can be used also in the healthcare industry.
  • “Is there any pushback to this rule?”
    • Vik explains that the majority of people are for this rule, especially Big Tech(Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon). Jimmy asks Vik about pushback from EHR’s.
  • “We are going to have a lot of apps for providers as well.”
    • Vik states that the innovation from the new rule will not benefit solely patients but providers as well. Healthcare providers will be able to find/transfer patient records with ease.

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Click link below to learn more about ONC’s Cures Act Final Rule:
https://www.healthit.gov/curesrule/

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