GAO Says Few Patients Accessing Their Own EHRs

Since 2009, HHS has invested over $35 billion in health information technology, including efforts to enhance patient access to and use of electronic health information. Program data for 2015 show that health care providers that participated in the program (3,218 hospitals and 194,200 health care professionals such as physicians) offered most of their patients the ability to electronically access health information. However, the analysis shows that relatively few patients electronically access their health information when offered the ability to do so. Click here for the GAO report.