How important is access to personal health records for empowering patients?
Access to personal health records is especially important for patient education, says HealthMaker Lygeia Ricciardi, director, Office of Consumer eHealth. In this video, she discusses how the Blue Button initiative will help in this effort.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] LYGEIA RICCIARDI: Within the last couple of years, there's been a big uptake in adoption of electronic medical records.
And that has terrific benefits to improve the quality of care as doctors share information with each other. For now, I think it's really important.
And one of the things we're working on is making sure that patients and consumers can get access to their own health information online.
And that's something that we call [INAUDIBLE],, just getting your information electronically.
And right now that's valuable because you don't know what's in that record. You haven't seen it. In a few years, I think it will be less critical actually
to see what your doctor has stored about you because in a world of proliferating sensors and other ways of diagnosing you
and self-diagnosis and all kinds of other things, that,
what is now in many cases, a piece of paper will be less essential than some of the other sources of data about you.
But for now, I think it's really important to get access to your record electronically if possible.
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