Patient disempowerment through the commercial access to digital health records

摘要: In this article, I consider how patients are disempowered through the commercial access to their health data in United States. examine two healthcare information technology bills that ostensibly give and control over records. However, contend that, since these regulations were drafted, part or whole, by corporate interests represented lobbyists, policymakers use rhetorical device of patient empowerment allow for data, which ultimately disempowers patients. This is because both asymmetrical relationship remains same: do not have ownership they produce. Rather, legislatively cede interests.