Sixty-five percent of U.S. patients are uncomfortable with Big Tech companies storing their health data, according to a survey of 1,213 patients from health information exchange Health Gorilla.
Here are four additional takeaways from the survey:
- Only 39 percent of patients are comfortable with providers accessing their data without consent for payment purposes.
- Ninety-five percent of patients were concerned about data breaches affecting their health records.
- Fifty-four percent of patients are worried about the security and privacy protections offered by health data vendors.
- Sixty percent of patients reported feeling more confident in health data exchanges facilitated by government-approved vendors.