Sharing electronic health records: the patient view

Healthcare Consumers’ Attitudes Towards Physician and Personal Use of Health Information Exchange

“…4,23 There is also a growing body of evidence that patients can play key roles in their own healthcare by keeping up with preventive services and identifying threats to the safety of their care. 24,25 Yet, consumers may be overestimating their abilities as accurate medical historians and documenters 26,27 , and although most of our surveyed population used the Internet, few had taken advantage of personal HIE services. It is currently unknown whether we could see benefits in cost-savings or improved quality of care with personal use of HIE alone.…”

Electronic health records, adoption, quality of care, legal and privacy issues and their implementation in emergency departments

“…Preliminary findings by Caine and Hananaia [71] showed that most patients wanted more control over the use of information stored in their EHR, and none agreed to a complete, comprehensive access to their EHR by M a n u s c r i p t practitioners affiliated with their healthcare provider. Powell, Fitton and Fitton [72] surveyed British citizens concerning the introduction of the NHS national health records system and inquired whether there were items and details which they preferred not to be shared with the national records system. They found that the items participants tended to wish to keep to themselves were mostly related to pregnancy, contraception, sexual health and mental health [72]; that is, information considered sensitive, private and potentially stigmatizing.…”

Providing patients online access to their primary care computerised medical records: a case study of sharing and caring

“…We have not had a single problem resulting from patients having gained access, though errors in records have been found and corrected. 23 …”