Getting Lab Results Directly to Patients
20th September 2011
A new federal proposal to give all patients in the U.S. direct electronic access to their lab results could make it easier to track important health markers like cholesterol levels and the body’s response to blood thinners – – with an iPhone.
The rules proposed by the Dept. of Health and Human Services are part of a broader effort to give patients more access to their own medical data, so they can become more engaged in their care. They would replace a confusing patchwork of state laws and privacy statutes and affect more than six billion lab tests a year.