AHIMA calls on Congress to fight opioids with information sharing, patient matching

Healthcare IT News: The American Health Information Management Association is on Capitol Hill this week, in support of two bills that could help address the opioid epidemic through better, more secure information sharing.

AHIMA officials are advocating for the pieces of proposed legislation, one in the Senate and one in the House. H.R.3545, (the Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act) and S.1850 (Protecting Jessica Grubb's Legacy Act) both seek to prevent more patient overdoses by enabling physicians to get information about patients' addiction treatment – something that's currently not allowed without explicit patient consent.

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