“The newly drafted Declaration of Health Data Rights, created by patient advocates, caregivers, health care professionals, technology and policy experts, and entrepreneurs (in some cases, all attributes in the same person), states that its assertions are self-evident, basic, essential. The right to have information about oneself? – why the fuss? – this is America after all! Yet the practical and psychological impediments are so immense, and the impact on an individual’s failing health and the country’s economic troubles so potentially redemptive, we get why it’s so important to start spreading the news/ make a brand new start of it.”
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Sarah Greene, e-patients.net, 26 June 2009
