Access Controls and Health Care Records: Who Owns the Data?: A discussion with David Evans, Richard McDonald, and Terry Coatta

Abstract

What if health care records were handled in more of a patient-centric manner, using systems and networks that allow data to be readily shared by all the physicians, clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies a person might choose to share them with or have occasion to visit? And, more radically, what if it was the patients who owned the data?