“The Society for Participatory Medicine (SPM) has expressed concern that proposed delays in allowing patients access to their EHR records under Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use EHR incentive program are “arbitrary” and will hurt patient care.
In a comment letter submitted to CMS May 4, the SPM warned that the proposed four-day grace period between the time that eligible professionals obtain patient records and when they must provide access to the patient impedes the continuity of care–as does the proposal to give providers 36 hours to provide discharge information after a patient leaves the hospital.”
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR, 10 May 2012
