Patients Want Some Control Over EHRs, Study Finds

Patients want to maintain some control over the privacy of their electronic health records, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Researchers found that more than 75% of surveyed patients were willing to share their entire EHR with a primary care provider but were less willing to share such data with other health care providers like pharmacists and specialists.

• "Patients Want To Control the Privacy of Their Health Info" (Gale, Clinical Innovation & Technology, 11/26).