"PHRs will never truly be safe, secure or private until federal law protects the privacy of Americans' health information wherever it is stored and no matter what databank holds it," Peel said. "Currently PHRs are being designed and given to millions of employees and people with health insurance to facilitate the data-mining and sale of their electronic medical records. The privacy of PHRs depends on whatever promises your insurer or employer makes to you—not on law. This makes them very dangerous. It is possible to design PHRs that have ironclad privacy protections due to multiple levels of encryption and public key infrastructure that prevent data-mining no matter which databank they are stored in. But ironclad privacy-protective PHRs are not what Aetna, Dossia, and most others are offering."
Also be sure to look at this related story below, two thirds of Americans don't even know what a PHR (personal health record) is....BD
But when Aetna (NYSE:AET) and the Financial Planning Association® (FPA®) surveyed more than 2,100 adults 18 and older, 64 percent said they do not know or are unsure about what a PHR is. Among the group of Americans who are familiar with PHRs, 83 percent acknowledge that the online record personalizes their experience with their health care provider, but only 11 percent currently use one to keep track of their medical and health history.
-- When asked why they didn't use a PHR, respondents had varying
reasons, indicating a need for education:
-- Have their own system for maintaining records (35 percent)
-- Concerned with the security of personal information (26
percent)
-- Don't know how to use and manage a PHR (18 percent)
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