Liar, Liar

Katherine Hobson at the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog reports that nearly 50 percent of respondents to a new California HealthCare Foundation study on electronic medical records said that they might be "less forthcoming" in sharing their information had they perceived any indication it might be shared in some way. "Privacy concerns still hover around EMRs, with 68 percent of survey respondents reporting some degree of worry about what happens to their personal information once it's stored in a doctor’s computer," Hobson writes, though she notes that "not being completely honest with doctors is practically an American tradition, with or without EMRs."