Following up on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's recent report on information blocking among health IT, the New York Times published an editorial on the same issue.
With the almost $30 billion already invested in the effort to digitize healthcare, the industry now needs to do its part to substantiate the investment according to the editorial. "The ability to transfer electronic medical records from one doctor or hospital to another is essential to the smooth functioning of the healthcare system and to providing the best possible care to patients. Yet all too often these transfers are being blocked by developers of health IT or greedy medical centers that refuse to send records to rival providers."
Editor
Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.