Americans support EHRs but have security concerns
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, October 17, 2005
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Most Americans support electronic health records (EHRs) as long as they are secure and private, reports Reuters.
According to a Markle Foundation poll of 800 adults nationwide,
- 72% favor EHR
- approximately 70% feel employers should not have access to an EHR
- almost 70% would use an EHR to check for mistakes and to verify prescriptions
- approximately 60% would use an EHR to get test results and e-mail their doctors
"We have everything else on the internet except our health information . . . Most patients don't know what is in their records, and they don't have the ability to make their record available to other providers," said Markle Foundation President Zoe Baird.
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