“Patients have the ability to electronically submit patient-generated health information” should be part of Meaningful Use Stage 3. It suggested that PGHD could be submitted through structured or semi-structured questionnaires and secure messaging and, depending on input from the HITSC, possibly through devices.”

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Patient generated health data (PGHD)

• Health history, symptoms, biometric data, treatment history, lifestyle choices, and other information—created, recorded, gathered, or inferred by or from patients or their designees (i.e., care partners or those who assist them) to help address a health concern.

Protocol with clinician when capturing PGHD

• Advise that physicians have a patient-clinician agreement and consent form that is discussed with and signed by each patient before engaging in electronic communication

Secured mobile application connection: Data security

• Enforce strong VPN encryption, authentication and granular access policies to ensure that access to data is secure. Secure on-device data with policies to allow or disallow intranet file download…