Your medical information in the digital age

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Chances are you don't oversee your own medical records. Until now, doing so has been difficult because bits and pieces of your information are probably scattered across the files of several doctors, hospitals, labs, and pharmacies. That's an inconvenient - and potentially dangerous - state of affairs, but one a new federal law may help remedy. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is providing about $30 billion to improve the exchange of health care information. One trickle-down effect will be likely be greater access to your lifetime medical information through a personal health record in electronic form..Printed journal