Question: legally, who actually owns medical records? The doctors who produce them or the patients they are about?
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Seems like patients have incentive to alter them for insurance fraud, but doctors have incentive to not share to create work for each other
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dunno, In India we had a paper file that patients would keep and take to each doctor. why can't that be digitized, secured w touch?
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it's complicated -- there's a clear difference between the claim (what the payer insurance/you pay the provier) and the ehr;
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claims generally owned by payor (hence vulture companies like these truvenhealth.com/your-healthcar optum.com/life-sciences/, etc)
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note all data has to be ``de-identified'' -- e.g. made HIPAA compliant -- to be sold.
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