Personal Health Records Help Guard Privacy and Confidentiality

VA official says patient-controlled health records guard privacy better 04/29/2010. Widespread use of personal health records, which individuals control, could help ensure privacy and confidentiality of medical data, a top official at the Veterans Affairs Department said on Wednesday.

Paul Tibbits, VA's deputy chief information officer for strategy, architecture and design, said health care providers should consider personal health records, which patients have access to and control, as the cornerstone of a national medical record system, as opposed to electronic health records, which clinicians manage. Nextgov