HealthIT Answers August 20, 2020
By Matt Fisher, Esq
Anecdotally, issues have existed for a long time in healthcare when in terms of knowing whether patients are telling physicians all of the information needed to effectively provide care. From some stories, reasons for a lack of sharing can range from believing the physician does not need to know something, not wanting to share a specific piece of information given perceived embarrassment, or not wanting the information to leak out. Those concerns existed when records were in paper form and not electronic.
The rise in electronic medical records now seems to be complicating matters further. A recent pragmatic randomized control trial interviewed a cohort of patients at one hospital about privacy and security concerns over medical...
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