New Data Finding: In 2018, the percent of individuals who viewed their online medical record and downloaded their record data increased by over 30%. Learn more at: healthit.gov/sites/default/… Vaishali Patel NCI HINTS #HealthApps #PatientAccess

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Excited to hear thoughts & even more excited that ONC CMO, Tom Mason is on his way to Atlanta AHIP meeting. Lots we can accomplish in this space to reduce clinician and healthcare team burdens.

“Time To Stop Labeling Physicians As Providers.” ⁦ACP⁩ no longer uses “provider” to describe physicians in its communications, except if citing others (then we put it in quotes). We say physician, doctor, or clinicians (to include nurses) forbes.com/sites/brucelee…

Pensive this month: yellow carded by WMATA which isn't bad and successfully navigated the CMS sign-up process which was surprisingly complex and I thought I was on top of this!

Remembering & learning about this incredibly influential piece of my medical upbringing: The Making of The House of God ja.ma/32q66iH

As a teenager, 50 years ago today I watched the lunar landing live from LaRochelle, France. I remember the sense of awe in the room paralleled by a sense of international unity - one world. A future hope still....

Big Day 2 at #InteropForum. •Keynote from FDA's Dr. Abernathy •Future of Interoperability Panel And.... •I moderate a panel with colleagues from the Netherlands

As a patient I demand easier access to my health data & stronger consequences to those who abuse my trust: Getting Your Medical Records Through an App? There’s a Catch. And a Fight. nyti.ms/34mbbcD

Simple ideas with impact are the best: independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

Clearly deep in thought on the excellent points made by the panel. So great to participate in the Second Stanford Medicine health IT meeting.

When CMS and ONC collaborate good things happen!

Next week we all should remember to change the batteries on our smoke detectors - equally important today is getting unused prescription meds especially controlled substances out of the house lnkd.in/eizmbSY

The ONC policy team is where great health IT policy things are happening. Great opportunity.

Yesterday @ONC_HealthIT released an updated version of the Health IT Playbook. See Dr. Tom Mason's blog for details: healthit.gov/buzz-blog/heal…

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REGISTER NOW – ONC Working Session: Patient Identity and Matching. events-na4.adobeconnect.com/content/connec… #PatientMatching #HealthIT

This is shaping up to be a great session next Monday -- fundamentally important issue for interoperability & patient safety. Join us by registering at the link below:

Kudos to Texas Children's Hospital pitching in and taking adult patients because as all pediatric caregivers know adults are just big kids.....

We are continuing to add new content & keep the Playbook up to date - see the section on telemedicine....