USA: Patients obtain a right to get their electronic health records

Health care organizations must provide patients with unfettered access to their digital health records under new federal rules taking effect October 6, 2022.  Under the 21st Century Cures Act, new federal rules are designed to shift the balance of power so that patients can not only get their data, but also choose who else can access it. Using this system, health care consumers can use the fluidity they’ve enjoyed in banking for decades in a patient-mediated data economy: they can move their information easily and electronically, and they can connect their accounts with new software and services.

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