Patients Are Not Being Adequately Informed About Electronic Patient Records, Says British Medical Association (Medical News Today)

Posted in Electronic Health Records by patricia on March 1st, 2010

Patients Are Not Being Adequately Informed About Electronic Patient Records, Says British Medical Association (Medical News Today)
Patients don’t have enough information about electronic patient records and it is too hard for them to opt-out if they want to, the BMA said today. Following limited local piloting, patients’ summary care records1 are now going to be uploaded to a central database across England. Five Strategic Health Authorities recently announced they were speeding up their plans2. Anyone who does not want to …

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