During last week’s annual meeting in Chicago, the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates passed several health IT-related recommendations, Modern Healthcare reports.
Personal Health Records
The medical association determined that it was too early to urge Congress to approve legislation regulating personal health records. However, AMA approved a policy that allows physicians to review only information they consider relevant in a patient’s PHR, instead of requiring them to review a patient’s entire health history.
AMA also adopted a policy recommending that all entries in patients’ PHRs include a time stamp and sourcing information.
Online Physician Profiles
Meanwhile, the House of Delegates condensed a package of resolutions aimed at regulating online physician profiles and referred the issue back to the board of trustees.
The package includes a directive that AMA “seek legislation that changes existing Internet laws to better protect physicians from cyberlibel, cyberslander, cyberbullying and the dissemination of Internet misinformation.”
State-Run Rx Monitoring Programs
The delegates also passed a resolution directing AMA to address restrictions that prohibit Department of Veterans Affairs doctors and pharmacists from participating in state-run prescription drug monitoring programs. The proposal was brought forth by the Kentucky delegation (Robeznieks, Modern Healthcare, 6/18).
