Harvard researchers have used a New England Journal of Medicine article to push the adoption of personal healthcare records , allowing individual patients to have ultimate control over the information about themselves that is available to the healthcare system , arguing the time is ripe for a “ patient - controlled health - record infrastructure ” in order to enable a “ patient - driven health information economy " . The need for a copy of one’s data is most obvious in life-and-death situations in which patients have failed to find answers in their health care system. The authors of the report , Professor Kenneth Mandl and Dr. David Cohen both lay the blame for the current state of the EHR market at the feet of providers , saying they have hampered efforts to bring about interoperability and data liquidity .
Harvard researchers have used a New England Journal of Medicine article to push the adoption of personal healthcare records , allowing individual patients to have ultimate control over the information about themselves that is available to the healthcare system , arguing the time is ripe for a “ patient - controlled health - record infrastructure ” in order to enable a “ patient - driven health information economy " . The authors of the report , Professor Kenneth Mandl and Dr. David Cohen both lay the blame for the current state of the EHR market at the feet of providers , saying they have hampered efforts to bring about interoperability and data liquidity .