Patient Access to and Use of Electronic Health Records (podcast)
Since 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services has invested over $35 billion in health information technology, including efforts to enhance patient access to and use of electronic health information. However, we found that relatively few patients accessed their records online, and typically only did so in response to a medical visit. We also found that HHS doesn't know how effective its efforts to increase online access have been.
Listen to Carolyn Yocom, a director in our Health Care team, discuss our recent findings:
Patient Access to and Use of Electronic Health Records
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