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 argue that there are many benefits associated with using electronic medical records (EMRs) and other forms of digital data collection, such as patient tracking systems (PTS), but they also warn against relying
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, Dr. Kenneth Mandl and Dr. Isaac Kohane 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.