“Of all of the risks regarding electronic health records, the largest is perhaps to privacy and confidentiality, and other civil liberties through the ability of information technology to rapidly duplicate and disseminate massive amounts of data.
This duplication and dissemination can be performed in a controlled manner for the betterment of patient and public health, but it can also occur in a harmful manner that serves the interests of others, often without meaningful informed consent by the patients (legal jargon on typical disclosure forms that almost nobody reads or understands does not fall into what I consider “meaningful.”)”
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MedInformaticsMD, Health Care Renewal, 7 October 2009
