What A Surprise US CIOs Realise That Many Can ’t Use Their Digital Health Tools And That There Are All Sorts Of Problems.

This appeared a few days ago:Are all patients up to the task of managing their own health data? Some CIOs say no by Heather Landi Mar 7, 2019 11:09am With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services introducing policies to drive interoperability and CMS Administrator Seema Verma recently making it clear that “patient data belongs to patients,” there is increasing discussion about giving patients easier access to their health data.But, will all patients truly be up to the task of managing their own health data?Some CIOs say definitely not, especially those patients who are chronically ill or those wi thout internet access, for example, according to a recent CIO focus group.The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and LexisNexis Risk Solutions led the focus group, which included vice presidents and CIOs from hospitals, nursing homes and health plans, to gauge healthcare leaders ’ top priorities in 2019.The focus group underscored that CIOs and other... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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