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HHS has a new step-by-step guide to getting, and using, digital health records

FedScoop: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) knows it can be hard for patients to get their full electronic health records, and it wants to help.

So the office launched a new webpage Wednesday — a public-facing step-by-step guide to procuring and utilizing one’s health record.

“It’s important that patients and their caregivers have access to their own health information so they can make decisions about their care and treatments,” Don Rucker, M.D., national coordinator for health information technology, said in a statement. “This guide will help answer some of the questions that patients may have when asking for their health information.”

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