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An uphill climb for personal health records
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Quick View. Posted June 19, 2006
Many in the health care industry and in the Bush administration are pushing health records created and maintained by patients as a way to improve care and lower costs.
But a survey released in May by Health Industry Insights, a unit of IDC, a Framingham, Mass.-based market research company, suggests that getting consumers onboard will be extremely challenging.
Of the 1,095 consumers who completed the survey, which has a 3% margin of error, 83% had never used a paper- or electronic-based PHR.
Source: IDC's Health Industry Insights
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