Wayne makes an excellent point though. The heck with even the insurance carriers, what about the patients "doctoring" and editing their own records. Many times we have documented that last bad phonecall or storm out of our office incident because we didn't give in to the patients demands for Rx's they shouldn't have and a thousand other things. There is a real difference between what a private citizen compiles verses what a clinical official, line thru, never destructive record is.
This may be a nice way for patients to have a record of the health information but there is a real difference between a mom walking in with a supposed photocopy of her kids shot records vs. the shot records sent doctor to doctor. Which one would you trust when your doctor has to sign off on some new kids shot records for the state and the school district??? This is will and always should be seen an electronic version of the folder with lots of notes, test results, that the anal for well informed patient walks in with. It is NOT anywhere near an official properly compiled by many accepted ground rules clinical medical record....
Whether it is carrier centric or crazy patient centric it is not and never should be seen or accepted as a real clinical medical record.... It the difference between talking to the pharmacy or getting a copy of the records from another licensed provider, vs the patient that walks in well intentioned with a nice hand written or typed list of all the meds they are on.... The difference between a doc documented a kid got a chicken pox shot or officially saw and Dx'ed Chicken Pox verses mom reporting last year the kid had a case of chicken pox. No official doctors record of the shot or chicken pox, then the kid gets the shot....
