"REC" Posts

Portrait of Lygeia Ricciardi

Building Momentum: Expanding Patient Access to Medical Records

Lygeia Ricciardi | July 1, 2013

Last month we at ONC and the health IT team at the White House gathered a group of diverse stakeholders to talk about ways to turbo charge patient access to medical records and how they can use their own electronic health information to achieve better health and healthcare. The Patient Access Summit II built on the momentum of a similar gathering last year.

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Portrait of Claudia Williams

New Direct Implementation Guide Will Support Interoperability

Claudia Williams | May 24, 2013

Today, ONC is releasing Direct Implementation Guidelines for Assuring Security and Interoperability, recommending a common set of policies and practices to ensure Direct is being implemented in a way that will support vendor-to-vendor exchange and interoperability across geographic, organizational and vendor-related boundaries.
The Direct Project specifications offer a universal exchange mechanism for Meaningful Use Stage 2 to support care coordination among providers and with patients.

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Portrait of Tracy Okubo

Managing My Personal Health Record: My Story of Living with Lupus

Tracy Okubo | May 13, 2013

When I was 15 years old I was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erthamatosis (Lupus). My parents and I didn’t really know or understand what Lupus was, but we knew that people died from it and that I needed to be extremely careful with my health. I remember how scared I was, along with being in extreme pain, barely able to walk. In addition I was puffy and losing my hair as a side effect of my medications.  

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