Most patients trust providers to keep records confidential
November 1, 1997 less than 1 minute read
Most patients trust providers to keep records confidential
Your facility’s patients probably trust you with keeping their medical records confidential, but they think the government can’t be trusted to do the same. That’s the result of a survey by the Physicians Information Exchange, a Chicago-based group of physicians from 51 specialties who are trying to develop a national database of clinical and cost data for health care.
When asked if they trust different groups with their medical records, physicians came out as the most trustworthy. Seventy-six percent of the respondents said they trust their physicians to keep the information confidential, but only 29% trust the federal government with the same information. Thirty-nine percent trust insurance companies, and 46% trust their employers.
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