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Public Opinion Regarding Electronic Health Records

A recent NPR/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health survey determined that 75% of adults think it is either very important or somewhat important for their health care providers to use electronic health records.  But ironically, 59% of those surveyed are not too confident or not at all confident that their personal health information will remain confidential when placed online.   So the majority of people surveyed think it is a good idea even though it is not secure.  Interesting.

The survey was conducted by telephone over 10 days  in March.  A sample of 1,238 randomly selected adults (18 and over) were polled.  All groups have been weighted to reflect their actual distribution in the country.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on May 05, 2009 (boomark / email).