Patient-centered health information evangelist and medical device developer. Volunteer CTO at Patient Privacy Rights Foundation.
Jan 25, 2020 • 7 tweets • 8 min read
1/7 Intense lobbying of @ONC_HealthIT information blocking API rules is not about patients. It’s about money. #Surprise Patient records are very valuable for analytics, machine learning, AI, insurance methods, narrow networks, quality measures, value-based payments...
@ONC_HealthIT 2/7 The lobbies are desperate to keep (@EHRAssociation
) or get (@carinalliance
) access to the records in transit. If patients and doctors can bypass either of them when using the API then surveillance capitalists will need explicit consent to access patient data.