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Medicine Grand Rounds - Elisabeth Askin, MD
Elisabeth Askin, MD is a primary care physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine based at Mt. Zion. She went to medical school at Washington University School of Medicine and completed residency at UCSF. She is the author of a primer on the U.S. health care system, called The Health Care Handbook. She is also the medical director of Ambulatory Clinical Documentation Integrity, focused on risk-adjustment for Medicare patients, with a goal of improving documentation quality to the benefit - not 
the expense - of clinicians' psyches.
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Measure the Impact of ONC’s New Interoperability Rules Now (Health Affairs blog)
On May 1, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) published landmark regulations to improve health data access and interoperability for patients, providers, and app developers, using a standardized application programming interface (API) infrastructure. In concept, the regulations take a giant leap forward. In practice, they might fall short of the nation’s goals. How will we know? How can we spot gaps and make timely corrections? Our blog in Health Affairs proposes a framework for immediate and future measurement in three domains: individual-level data access; bulk data access; and information blocking.