CMAJ| OCTOBER 7, 2019| VOLUME 191| ISSUE 40 E1101 patient portal, it is crucial to
define which person, group or organization is the custodian to frame legal responsibility. A …

Patient portals are poised to transform health communication by empowering patients with
rapid access to their own health data. The 21st Century Cures Act is a US federal law that …

Therightsofpatientstobeinformedaboutcared… in clinical practice is yet again under scrutiny,
both in the United States and around the world. The well-ingrained ethical-legal process of …

When Congress prohibited “information blocking” under the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016,
it made no reference to patient portals, the websites through which many health care …

Ubel and colleagues report on a variety of deficits affecting the quality of decision making in
health care (Ubel, Scherr, and Fagerlin 2017). Although shared decision making is intended …

Information collection, storage, and management is central to the practice of health care. For
centuries, patients' and providers' expectations kept medical records confidential between …

Background Recent legislation ensuring patient access to their electronic health records
represents a promising national commitment to patient empowerment. Access and …

Imagine your patient receiving a notification on their smartphone. They open their patient
portal while sitting in the bleachers at their child's baseball game and read the results of their …

The primary function of electronic health care data is to enable the provision of health care
services to individuals. Sharing these data for public health and research purposes are …

Klugman and colleagues (2018) provide a very useful overview of the tremendous variety of
ethical and legal questions raised by the emergence of" digital medicines," especially those …