Full access to medical records does not modify anxiety in cancer patients

Give patients access to their medical records.

Last week nearly 3000 healthcare providers and users attended the International Forum for Quality and Safety in London. Hosted by The BMJ and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, it’s always an inspiring event. You can watch recorded sessions (http://internationalforum.bmj.com/london), and I encourage you to sign up for the Asia Forum in Kuala Lumpur in August and for next year’s Internati...

Patient's access to medical records.

What Do Patients Do with Access to Their Medical Records?

We sought to study the phenomenon of patients having access to their own medical records in order to determine the impact on them and on their relationship with their health care providers. We created the Patient Clinical Information System (PatCIS) to interface with the clinical data repository at New York Presbyterian Hospital to allow patients to add to and review their medical data. We also...

Access to employee exposure and medical records.

Patients, privacy and trust: patients' willingness to allow researchers to access their medical records.

The federal Privacy Rule, implemented in the United States in 2003, as part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), created new restrictions on the release of medical information for research. Many believe that its restrictions have fallen disproportionately on researchers prompting some to call for changes to the Rule. Here we ask what patients think about r...