“The issue around ownership of electronic health information must be addressed before it can be used to improve healthcare, says a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“This legal uncertainty presents a major obstacle to integrating and using information about a single patient from various clinicians and hospitals,” say the article’s authors, Mark A. Hall, a professor of law and public health sciences at Wake Forest University and Kevin A. Schulman, MD, a professor of medicine and vice chairman for business affairs in the Department of Medicine in Duke University’s School of Medicine.”
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News, 25 March 2009
