WHO recommendation on record access (draft).

RA is the process whereby a user of a health service has the power to access their personal health record (PHR). The PHR means any health record holding information pertaining exclusively to that person. The PHR can be held centrally, when all health records, including community, GP and hospital, are held in a central store; or they can be distributed, stored in different places. RA thus means that a person can see all or part of the health information held about them. Full RA means that citizens and their selected family, friends and carers can see and use all information, for instance, their full primary care record. A full primary care record would typically include a summary of their main health problems, letters to and from their clinical team, medication details, allergies, immunizations, investigation results. Citizens should have active access to add personal information, like use of over the counter drugs or results from home monitoring devices.