Patients Eager to Share Electronic Health Records with Others, Stanford/VA Survey Shows

The patients have spoken: Nearly 80 percent of Veterans Affairs patients who participated in a survey would like to share their electronic health information with family members, caregivers and outside providers, according to a new study led by a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System.

“Patients were overwhelmingly interested in allowing their caregivers and health-care providers to access their online health information and help them manage their health care,” said Donna Zulman, MD, an instructor of medicine at Stanford and an investigator at the VAPAHCS Center for Health Care Evaluation. She is first author of the study, which was published in the Dec. 20 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine...