Doctors Slow to Adopt E-Records for Patients - washingtonpost.com: "'The big problem is that the vast majority of electronic medical-record systems do not give patients the right to decide who has access to the records,' said Deborah C. Peel, a psychiatrist and founder of Patient Privacy Rights, an Austin-based nonprofit that wants greater safeguards. 'They do not give patients the right to segment sensitive portions. . . . The electronic medical records in use now have been designed primarily for the convenience of physicians.'"
This is one of the reasons PHR make much more sense than EMRs ! They are owned by the patient, who can share them with whomsoever they choose.
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