“A recent CNN.com article (http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/01/14/medical.records) entitled “Patients demand: ‘Give us our damned data’” highlights the barriers that many patients must overcome in order to get access to their own medical records.
The Health Information Privacy and Portability Act (HIPAA) gives patients the right to their own health information, and dictates that doctors and hospitals must provide patients with this information upon request, but in reality it can be extremely difficult for patients to obtain a copy of their health records.”
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Collin Evans, Dossia Blog, 29 January 2010
