What is it about?
Healthcare providers do not have the incentive to make their electronic health records easily exportable, because that way patients will find it easier to shop for different providers. Enter private health records like Microsoft's HealthVault. They have the incentive to import data from different electronic health records, and make it accessible to all providers.
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Why is it important?
Increased adoption of electronic health records is a laudable goal, but we need to make it easy for those records to be easily and widely exportable. If we want to do it without regulatory intervention, personal health records is a viable option for reaching that goal.
Perspectives
Patients would want their data to be available to all healthcare providers. This makes it easier for administering healthcare without bureaucratic delays and costs. Without having the complete medical history, there remains the inconveniences and costs of unnecessary and/or duplicated medical tests, as well as the possibility of potentially harmful medication and procedures.
Subhajyoti Bandyopadhyay
University of Florida
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This page is a summary of: An Analysis of the Adoption of Digital Health Records Under Switching Costs, Information Systems Research, September 2011, INFORMS,
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1110.0349.
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