Experimenting with personalized medical records

Experimenting with personalized medical records

More than a computerized health record, the personal medical record is intended to gather all information relating to the patient’s health: prescriptions, surgical or consultation reports, laboratory analyses or medical imaging. Marie-HAUDE LE LANN works in the emergency department in Ploërmel. She is one of the first doctors in Brittany to use personal medical records. The establishment of the personal medical record stems from the KOUCHNER Law according to which the patient is an actor of his health. It is therefore he who, in principle, keeps his hand on his file and via the Internet he can, in particular, prohibit access to certain doctors. Knowing that only health professionals following it are allowed to access it. Three months after its establishment, the Ploërmel hospital opened almost 400 personal medical records. But for it to become an effective tool for coordination between physicians, it is necessary that liberal practitioners also adhere to the digital system.

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Publication date : 21 June 2012