Mostashari launches online petition for patient data access
Former National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, MSc, has launched a national campaign to drive better patient access to healthcare data.
"We the people want easy, electronic access to our health information," he wrote on the website established to collect signatures: getmyhealthdata.org. "Because demonstrating consumer demand is the best way to show lawmakers, hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, labs, pharmacies and other decision makers that people care about electronic access to their health information."
The online petition lists individuals and organizations who support the effort. At the Health Datapalooze in Washington, D.C., Mostashari announced plans to set July 4 as Data Independence Day.
During HIMSS15, he also voiced his objections to the proposed rule for Meaningful Use Stage 3 which reduced the view, download, transmit requirement from 5 percent of patients to just a single patient.
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