Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.
The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.
Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us.
You don't necessarily want your physician to have all your information.
There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'
I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.
We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated.
People want to be in charge of health information. They want it available the same way online banking is available.
Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.
We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.