“We should encourage healthcare consumers to actively participate in their own healthcare. The web will be a very important factor in this process by providing access by consumers to sophisticated healthcare information. Web-based personal heath records (PHRs) constitute another key element in consumer self-care by providing them ready access to their electronic health records. Web sites that enable consumers to order lab tests for themselves (the so-called direct access testing or DAT sites) are another facet of this approach to healthcare.”
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Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News, 30 June 2009
