Through the portal: Practices still generally shy of giving patients access to their medical notes

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Through the portal: Practices still generally shy of giving patients access to their medical notes

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More than 730 practices now have patient portals, but just 105 let their patients have full access to their own clinical notes

Simon Maude peers into the world of digital communication between GPs and patients, and finds openness is not the norm

If you have jotted notes for yourself for the last 40 years of practice, then them being available to a patient who might not understand your shortcut