ABSTRACT
Concerns about privacy and security of health records are not new to the age of electronic health records (EHRs). In the days of paper records, patients had valid concerns about the privacy of their health information; they expected access to those records would be limited and their contents would remain confidential. What has changed in the era of EHRs is the ease with which health records could potentially be lost or breached, even from great distances, and the potential scale of the incidents.
