@ChrisFNP,
A few years back, eClinicalWorks was sued for several millions of dollars because a medical firm asked for all their data out of the eClinicalWorks "cloud". ECW said, "We don't do exports of data. If you want access you have to keep paying us mega bucks every month otherwise we DELETE."
The medical firmed sued because the P in HIPAA does stand for PORTABILITY. eCW lost, handedly, and had to come up with the export they have today. Suddenly, almost all the other online EMRs had their own export features as well. Note: I said almost. There are still a few holdouts that will either not export at all or give you some half-assed export. And, of course, there are those medical facilities that cannot get their data because they are still on some old version of the software, never upgraded, and the export feature was done way after.
JamesNT
.png "ACUF Donor I")
