Hospitals not making patient-controlled records a priority, Boston Children's Hospital directors say

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital are pressing for the healthcare industry to give patients control of their data. Kenneth Mandl, MD, director of Boston Children's Computational Health Informatics Program, or CHIP, and Isaac Kohane, MD, a member of the CHIP faculty and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, outline their case in The New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers argue that the technologies exist, demand is ripe and the benefits could be immense. But the incentives and will to make it happen are missing.