HealthITSecurity explores the move toward patient access to personal health records (PHI) under the EHR Incentive Programs Stage 2 Meaningful Use and the new burdens that will be implicitly placed on providers. Covered entities will have to take steps to ensure that patients are aware of their responsibility for protecting their PHI. Mount Sinai Hospital’s David Mendelson queried, “Does the fact that we put (PHI) in the control of the patient endanger the provider in some way? Does the patient know what to share and what to expose over time? Does the patient want that responsibility? Sometimes, the answer is no.”
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