HHS Posts Draft Electronic Health Record Standards

Nextgov: The Health and Human Services Department wants the public's input on a document that might help patients' medical records follow them between health systems.

HHS published a draft "Interoperability Standards Advisory" last week, part of its efforts to make the country's electronic medical records systems compatible with each other. In a fully interoperable health system, a patient hospitalized in a new city could look up and transfer their records from their previous health care provider.

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