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Society for Participatory Medicine Files Comments in Support of Proposed CLIA and HIPAA Regs Making Lab Results Available to Patients

David Harlow | November 15, 2011

As you may recall, in September the federales issued proposed regulations that would make all lab results subject to the basic rule that all patient records should be provided to the patient upon request. See the post on e-patients.net explaining the proposed rule on access to lab results and its background. Following discussion in the comments to the blog [...]

Second wave of comments on Health IT safety issues

e-Patient Dave | March 16, 2010

Last month I posted the testimony I submitted to the Adoption/Certification Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee. (I urge interested parties to review the links to other resources in that post.) Today Paul Egerman, chair of that team, circulated a preliminary draft of recommendations from that meeting. Here is my response tonight, edited a [...]