One more survey, do we really need to spend this money, I think we have a pretty good idea here that it is not many. My personal opinion here would be to spend the money and enable and educate folks on how this can be done, rather than to see how many can’t, it’s an obvious.
If the money were spend on an education campaign with showing consumers how to work with a personal health record, we 
would be miles ahead to enable consumers instead of posting how many are in the dark, as a PHR process will enable this process and bring a greater awareness and continuity to the pursuit of better health care and better documentation that will favor all. BD
The federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is seeking information on how many consumers can access their medication information online. The study is part of agency efforts to develop measures of performance of its initiatives to increase the adoption of health information technology. AHRQ also wants information available from various sources to measure the reduction in medication errors because of electronic prescribing. It also wants to measure the number of clinicians who can electronically access prevention and treatment guidelines and evidence-based clinical decision support. But secondary data isn't available to measure consumers electronically accessing their medication data, according to the agency.
AHRQ estimates the survey will cost $310,067 and is requesting Office of Management and Budget approval to conduct it.
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