“Traditionally, the patient chart stayed in the doctors office and rarely did a patient get a glimpse of anything in the record. Photocopying the chart is expensive and no physician would let a chart leave her office because the record must be held safely for a minimum of 7 years. Now more and more offices are doing away with clunky paper charts and electronic medical records are becoming the norm. With electronic portals, is there any reason a patient shouldn’t have access to their own medical record?”
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Toni Brayer, KevinMD, 21 January 2012
Article (Walker 2011)
