Hospitals and doctors have your health records. Should app makers get them too?
Summary
In addition to asking health system customers to weigh in, she has also raised the possibility of suing the federal government if rules she finds objectionable go into effect, as first reported by Politico. When a new Epic system finally went live at Mayo Clinic in 2018, this news was so big that the Rochester Post Bulletin newspaper noted that the switch was made at 3:54 a.m. on a Saturday morning, a major milestone on a $1.5 billion project. The EHR industry argues, with good reason, that its systems have been open for properly sharing information for a long time, allowing a patient to move along with treatment even though different clinics or specialty practices got involved along the way. Lots of information a person might want to quickly know sits inside someone elses computer system — from the weather outside to the boxscore from last nights Minnesota Timberwolves game — yet can almost magically appear on a smartphone. What would happen if a patient used a sloppy smartphone app to grab a recent lab report with blood sugar shown to be high enough to be in the range of diabetic?
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