04/12/2021
https://www.congress.gov...
"Basically, it's a way to tie a patient to a system, to say the system is not going to share data anywhere else."
"Health data ultimately belongs to the patient, not to EHR vendors, and an EHR vendor should not be permitted to 'hoard' patient data in order to gain a business advantage."
"As you know, our electronic health record systems often have trouble matching a particular scan or a test result to the right patient, and those mismatches endanger patients."
"Federal law allows individuals, non-profits and small businesses who sue the government and win to recover their costs in a lawsuit if they can show that the Government's legal position wasn't substan..."