What is it about?

It is now technically easy to offer you access to your own health record held by your family doctor. This has lots of benefits both for you and for your healthcare system. This paper explores the development and future of record access. It looks at both the benefits, the risks and the cultural challenges it poses.

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Why is it important?

Record access is important because it shifts power a bit towards the patient. It improves shared decision-making and improves trust. Record access also is safer than routine care, as data is shared more easily by the patient across healthcare sectors such as primary care and hospitals. And it has been shown that record access reduces demand on the primary care system substantially.

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This page is a summary of: Patient online record access – a global perspective, Patient Intelligence, July 2015, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/pi.s60980.
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