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ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2022

The 21st Century Cures Act and Multiuser Electronic Health Record Access: Potential Pitfalls of Information Release.

Simone Arvisais-Anhalt, May Lau, Christoph U Lehmann, A Jay Holmgren, Richard J Medford, Charina M Ramirez, Clifford N Chen

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Article in Journal of medical Internet research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
11.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Simone Arvisais-AnhaltDepartment of Hospital Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1540-9186
May LauDivision of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1390-9921
Christoph U LehmannDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9559-4646
A Jay HolmgrenDepartment of Medicine, Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7939-6831
Richard J MedfordDivision of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9814-8043
Charina M RamirezDivision of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5223-9396
Clifford N ChenDivision of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6083-7246
Children's Medical Center · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

UT Southwestern Center for Translational MedicineUL1TR003163 · NCATS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI TOTO, ROBERT DANIEL · 2021 to 2025
$39.3M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR003163
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the Office of The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's (ONC) Information Blocking Provision in the Cures Act Final Rule is an important step forward in providing patients free and unfettered access to their electronic health information (EHI), in the contexts of multiuser electronic health record (EHR) access and proxy access, concerns on the potential for harm in adolescent care contexts exist. We describe how the provision could erode patients' (both adolescent and older patients alike) trust and willingness to seek care. The rule's preventing harm exception does not apply to situations where the patient is a minor and the health care provider wishes to restrict a parent's or guardian's access to the minor's EHI to avoid violating the minor's confidentiality and potentially harming patient-clinician trust. This may violate previously developed government principles in the design and implementation of EHRs for pediatric care. Creating legally acceptable workarounds by means such as duplicate "shadow charting" will be burdensome (and prohibitive) for health care providers. Under the privacy exception, patients have the opportunity to request information to not be shared; however, depending on institutional practices, providers and patients may have limited awareness of this exception. Notably, the privacy exception states that providers cannot "improperly encourage or induce a patient's request to block information." Fearing being found in violation of the information blocking provisions, providers may feel that they are unable to guide patients navigating the release of their EHI in the multiuser or proxy access setting. ONC should provide more detailed guidance on their website and targeted outreach to providers and their specialty organizations that care for adolescents and other individuals affected by the Cures Act, and researchers should carefully monitor charting habits in these multiuser or proxy access situations.

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ConfidentialityElectronic Health RecordsAdolescentChildHumansPrivacy21st Century Cures Actadolescent Healthcures actelectronic health informationelectronic health recordhealth informationhealth IT PolicyInformation Blockinginformation technologymultiuser EHR accessOpen Notespatient careproxy EHR access

Identifiers

PMID35175207
PMCPMC8895284
OpenAlexW4200545679

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