“The majority of Americans have a great deal of personal health information in their physician’s medical record. Many of these physicians have an electronic healthcare record (EHR) to store this information.
Unless you are in an integrated healthcare system, and most Americans are not, this information is just not available to you or any physician seeing you who does not belong to the same physician group as your primary physician. Even your primary physician often will not have the latest information from your specialist physician or hospital. God forbid that you travel and need healthcare far from home.”
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Edward Pullen, KevinMD, 24 January 2010
