Regina Holliday’s Testimony to HIT Policy Committee 4-20-10: Access to the Electronic Medical Record

This is a link to @ReginaHolliday’s testimony before the HIT Policy Committee of the Office of the National Coordinator, to be given on April 20, 2010

Regina Holliday’s Medical Advocacy Blog: Access to the Electronic Medical Record – Because we are all patients in the end. We all deserve care and compassion. We all deserve access to information.

A hospital environment is a scary and strange place, but it is far more scary if you do not know what is going on. I went to a small health 2.0 meeting on May 27th 2009. The people attending that meeting asked me to focus on what was the worst thing that had happened through this entire tragedy.

I told them the worst thing we experienced was lack of access to my husband’s data.

Because….

We Are All Patients in the End

Ted Eytan, MD