Turns out that many Americans may be far more willing to share their personal medical data with outsiders than they are their purchasing or social media activity. And even though most are okay with having their medical information maintained online and shared, only about half have ever viewed it themselves.
This comes from a survey of more than 3,000 U.S. adults by the health care analytics company Truven Health Analytics. Truven teams up with National Public Radio to extract information via polls from a database of 82,000 individuals. This poll focused on medical data collection and use.
The pollsters reported that 75 percent of those surveyed said their primary care clinician has an electronic medical record system in place. Asked if they were willing to share the data for research purposes, 68 percent said they were.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
