Recently introduced legislation in the House of Representatives seeks to reduce patient frustration in dealing with a variety of interactions with the nation’s healthcare providers as they try to access their health records.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, (R-Wash.) introduced the bill, H.R 4613, which would authorize claims clearinghouses to build longitudinal health records for patients, for a reasonable cost-based fee, while also enabling the clearinghouses to analyze claims data including data on providers, diagnoses and treatment for episodes of care for the public good.