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Nearly 80% of U.S. consumers surveyed this year said they are wary of electronic health records (EHR) because they fear that their personal information might be stolen or lost if it were stored in an EHR system.
The online survey, conducted by Harris Interactive for Xerox in February and released last month, polled 2,720 U.S. adults.
Nearly 80% of respondents who have concerns about digital medical records indicated stolen personal information by a computer hacker to be their number one worry, followed by the threat of lost, damaged or corrupted records at 64% and the misuse of information at 62%.
In addition, the survey found that more than half of U.S. adults familiar with the conversion of paper records to digital records (51%) do believe that EHRs will result in better, more efficient care – up from last year’s survey when only 49% agreed.
Read more: http://news.xerox.com/pr/xerox/Xerox-Survey-Shows-Impact-of-Electronic-Health-Records.aspx
Source: Patients Need Assurance that Electronic Health Records are Secure, Xerox Survey Says
Date: July 20, 2011
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