Do Patients Really Need Access to Their Access to Their Health Records?

I strongly support broad access by patients to their medical records and EHR interoperability and have blogged frequently about both topics (see, for example:Patients Often Lukewarm about Patient Portals; Problems with Training?;NYT Op-Ed on EHR Interoperability Blames Vendors and Greedy Hospitals). A recent article discussed Judy Faulkner of Epic and her questioning of former VP Joe Biden about the need for patients' access to their medical records. The article also touched on the topic of EHR interoperability (see:Cancer moonshot head recounts exchange with Epic ’s Faulkner). Below is an excerpt from the article:Former Vice President Joe Biden took to task an Epic executive who questioned during a January [2017] meeting of the Cancer Moonshot why patients should have their full medical record....Epic CEO Judy Faulkner asked Biden during ...[a] private meeting between EHR executives and administration officials, “Why do you want your medical records? They’re a thousand pages of which you understand 10,”....Biden responded, “None of your business,”....“If I need to, I’ll find someone to explain them to me and, by the way, I will understand a lot more than you think I do,”.........[A source close to Biden says the] account of the event offers a glimpse at the frustration the Obama White House faced in getting EHR companies to share patient records, despite giving billions in incentives for doctors and hospitals to buy systems. The software wasn ’t...
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