Comments about ‘Medical records firm CEO aims to empower patients’

Personal electronic health records would have a huge levcerage effect in both reducing long-term health care costs and improving quality. It would enable better coordination of care, reduce duplication of testing, and provide much more data for clinincal research, which has the potential to bring more evidence-based medicine to physicians and others in theit efforts to accurately diagnose and treat their patients. It also has the potential to enable greater self-diangnosia throught the use on-line tools, as individuals take greater responsibility for their own health.

Marksbirdsall, you may be right, but people should not have to pay to obtain their own personal information. Having done similar work many years ago for a different company for life insurance companies. While I see the benefit for that type of service. I am offended by the idea of having to pay for someone to obtain my personal information. I understand a minimal copy fee, but to pay a company to get and scan my records. IF this is such an important need, then Medicannect should lobby the government to pass legislation enabling patients access to their own records at no additional cost. Again no one should have to pay for information especially their own personal information.

In addition to giving away all our privacy to doctors, nurses, pharmacists, radiologists, laboratories, and law enforcement (just to name a few), who have we protected our privacy from? In smaller communities, this includes everyone to start with. What about letting the patient just say no. Not only to information sharing, but the right to refuse therapy altogether.