Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending June 5:
Release of patients' electronic data should be a top priority, says OCR
Healthcare IT News ~ Jessica Davis ~ 02/06/2016
At ONC’s annual meeting, Deven McGraw, deputy director of health information privacy in HHS' Office for Civil Rights, said the culture change surrounding data sharing will happen because patients demand it.
PHRs struggling to gain traction and show benefits: review
Digital Health News ~ Ben Heather ~ 02/06/2016
Attempts to create personal health records suffer from a “lack of quantifiable benefits” and some schemes face an uncertain future if new funding is not found.
