“There’s an interesting debate underway on one of the LinkedIn discussion boards about whether or not patients should have access to their electronic health data. Depending upon who is answering, it ranges from of course, to why not, to no way. And what is an EHR anyway? How is it different from an EMR? And why should I care?
Learning the alphabet soup of health technology is going to matter more and more as the new health reform law kicks in. My health records – and yours – are already stored on a physician’s PC, on a hospital’s server, or an insurance company’s mainframe. Are implanted microchips behind the ear next?”
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Liz Seegert, The Human Factor, 26 April 2010
