Influential San Diego healthcare guru, Dr Eric Topol, has told a US healthcare conference that "patients have to own their own medical data [...] as a prerequisite for democratising healthcare". Once patients control their health records, the "much-needed" revolution in American healthcare can begin to take place, and end the "ingrained paternalism" of doctors. Currently in the San Diego, only residents of New Hampshire own their personal medical data by law.
Influential US healthcare guru, Dr Eric Topol, has told a San Diego healthcare conference that "patients have to own their own medical data [...] as a prerequisite for democratising healthcare". Once patients control their health records, the "much-needed" revolution in American healthcare can begin to take place, and end the "ingrained paternalism" of doctors. Currently in the US, only residents of New Hampshire own their personal medical data by law.