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Source: Cory Schultz, iMedicalApps
“Recording notes about a patient is standard practice among physicians and has often left patients curious about what is written down about them.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Notes, Patient
Source: Kaiser Permanente
“Kaiser Permanente already has the largest electronic medical record system in the world. Today, the health care organization announced that 9 million Kaiser Permanente patients now can easily access their own medical information anywhere in the world on mobile devices through a mobile-optimized website.
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24 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, lab results, mHealth, Patient, smartphone
Source: Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Kaiser Permanente announced today that its nearly 9 million patients can now securely access their electronic medical records (EMRs) from a new, free mobile app on their Android devices or from other mobile devices via a mobile-optimized site.
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24 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Applications, lab results, mHealth, Patient, smartphone
Source: Toni Brayer, KevinMD
“Traditionally, the patient chart stayed in the doctors office and rarely did a patient get a glimpse of anything in the record. Photocopying the chart is expensive and no physician would let a chart leave her office because the record must be held safely for a minimum of 7 years.
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22 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Patient
Source: Jane Newman, Dr Chrono
“Last September, the Department of Health and Human Services introduced an amendment to the CLIA Program and HIPAA Privacy Rule: Patients’ Access to Test Reports.
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22 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | Tags: Access, lab results, Patient
Source: Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Acute
“GP leaders have said they are concerned giving patients access to their online record could risk their medical history being used against them, and may create more work for GPs having to explain medical terms to worried patients.
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22 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, Patient, Risks
Source: Maureen McKinney, ModernHealthcare
“Health insurance carriers that provide coverage for federal employees must soon begin offering their members additional downloading and data-sharing capabilities.
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20 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Data Sharing, Patient
Source: Sara Jackson, FierceHealthIT
“Physicians may be reluctant to share their notes openly with patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that we reported on last month. Once they try it, however, they seem to like it.
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19 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | Tags: Access, Notes, Patient
Source: John Whyte, HuffingtonPost
“That’s still a common phrase you might from the doctor after you’ve have some lab test, biopsy or imaging study like a CT scan. Sometimes the doctor will say “If you don’t hear from me, everything is fine.” Well, given the complexity and comprehensiveness of medical exams nowadays, that’s probably not a good idea. And honestly, it’s never been a good idea to assume no news is good news.
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19 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, lab results, Patient
Source: Andrew Tillett, The West Australian
“A family group has attacked plans to allow children as young as 14 to stop their parents from accessing their personal electronic health records.
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15 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tags: Access, Adolescents, Patient, sealed-envelope
Source: Chris Lancelot, GP Online
“Patients will soon be able to view their medical records online, if the NHS Future Forum’s recent suggestion is adopted by the government.
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15 January 2012 | 1 Comment »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, Patient, Risks
Source: Peter Jean, The Canberra Times
“Teenagers will be able to stop their parents accessing their personally controlled electronic health records which are due this year.
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15 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tags: Access, Adolescents, Patient
Source: Rebecca Smith, The Telegraph
“Government advisers have said that access to GP medical records online is a vital ‘first step’ towards patients feeling that they truly own information held about them.
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11 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, Patient
Source: Public Service
“NHS patients must be given access to their own medical records online before the end of this Parliament to enable them to better manage their own health, the NHS Future Forum has urged.
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11 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, GP, Patient
Source: Chloe Herrick, Computerworld
“The National E-Health Transition Authority (NeHTA) will maintain its current design for personal e-health records despite acknowledging concerns that increased consumer control over health information could potentially result in poorer health outcomes for patients.
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10 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia
Source: Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times
“In an old “Seinfeld” episode, Elaine goes to see a dermatologist about a rash, and is left sitting on the table in the exam room, alone with her medical chart. She opens the folder and almost immediately makes a sour face.
“ ‘Difficult’?” she says, reading aloud.
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10 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Notes, Patient
Source: Angela Petty, The Washington Post
“With money tight, congressional appropriators rarely insist that agencies spend money. Yet the omnibus spending bill passed Dec. 17 approved $100 million for a joint Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs effort to develop digital medical records — even though they missed deadlines for requesting the money.
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9 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Costs, Efficiency, Patient
Source: Patricia Salber, KevinMD
“I am a big fan of DIY (do-it-yourself) healthcare, at least for the bulk relatively minor issues that plague people. I think the days when doctors were needed to control, interpret and dole out health data and information are waning. There are simply too many ways, primarily via the internet, to get good, reliable, easy-to-understand information about our own health.
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5 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | Tags: Access, Benefits, lab results, Patient, Risks
Source: Denis Campbell, The Guardian
“NHS patients will be allowed to see and edit their medical records under proposals in a government-commissioned report.
The plan is contained in a report that an expert advisory group, headed by Professor Steve Field, the coalition’s NHS troubleshooter, is finalising before handing it to the Department of Health.
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23 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Access, Patient
Source: e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“What a rocket ride it’s been for Xeni. Tuesday morning we reported on the BoingBoing co-editor’s unexpected breast cancer diagnosis 12/9, and her odyssey reading her scan data. (CDs didn’t come with software; in a few hours with Twitter help she’d downloaded OsiriX and was pushing her way through it.)
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23 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: United States | Tags: e-patient, Oncology
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Science
Source: Haggstrom DA et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 18 Suppl 1
In order to create user-centered design information to guide the development of personal health records (PHRs), 24 patients participated in usability assessments of VA’s MyHealtheVet program. Observational videos and efficiency measures were collected among users performing four PHR scenarios: registration and log-in, prescription refill, tracking health, and searching for health information. Twenty-five percent of users successfully completed registration. Individuals preferred prescription numbers over names, sometimes due to privacy concerns.
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6 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Patients, RA Research, Record Access, Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, Patient, phr, Usability
Source: Feeley TW et al, Annals of Internal Medicine, 155(12)
Physicians’ notes are one of the oldest tools in medicine and have evolved into today’s electronic medical record. As we move toward greater transparency in health care, one emerging concept is that sharing information among patients, caregivers, and involved clinicians can improve efficiency, decrease redundancy, and decrease cost. The concept of improving health care delivery by sharing the medical record with the patient is not new.
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20 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: RA Research, Record Access, Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Access, emr, Notes, Patient, Physicians, Provider, Transparency
Source: Walker J et al, Annals of Internal Medicine, 155(12)
Background:
Little is known about what primary care physicians (PCPs) and patients would expect if patients were invited to read their doctors’ office notes.
Objective:
To explore attitudes toward potential benefits or harms if PCPs offered patients ready access to visit notes.
Design:
he PCPs and patients completed surveys before joining a voluntary program that provided electronic links to doctors’ notes.
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20 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Patients, RA Research, Record Access, Science | Country: United States | Tags: Access, Notes, Patient, Primary Care
Source: Kim J, Bates DW. J Med Internet Res, 13(4)
BACKGROUND
Personal health records (PHRs) remain a relatively new technology and concept in practice even though they have been discussed in the literature for more than 50 years. There is no consensus on the definition of a PHR or PHR system even within the professional societies of health information technology.
OBJECTIVE
Our objective was to analyze and classify the opinions of health information professionals regarding the definitions of the PHR.
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1 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Patients, RA Research, Record Access, Science | EHR: EHR | Tags: phr
Source: Beard L et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 19(1)
It is becoming increasingly apparent that there is a tension between growing consumer demands for access to information and a healthcare system that may not be prepared to meet these demands. Designing an effective solution for this problem will require a thorough understanding of the barriers that now stand in the way of giving patients electronic access to their health data.
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27 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Patients, RA Research, Record Access, Science | Tags: Access, Patient
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