Seventy-eight percent of U.S. adults said their physicians should have access to information included in their electronic health records — the same percentage as 2009, according to a new HealthDay/Harris Interactive survey.
Thirty percent of respondents said their insurers should have access to information contained in their EHRs, down slightly from 33% in 2009.
Twenty-eight percent of U.S. adults said their primary care physician uses an EHR, while 17% said their primary care physician does not use an EHR. Forty-two percent of survey respondents said they were not sure whether their primary care physician uses an EHR system, and 12% said they do not have a primary care physician.
Results are based on an online survey of 2,035 U.S. adults conducted from June 8 to June 10.
Source: HealthDay/Harris Interactive, “Few Americans Using ‘E-‘Medical Records”
