From the article: "To date, personal health record adoption has been somewhat limited, but the
market is expected to get a big boost from Stage 2 of the meaningful use
incentive program.
Deven McGraw -- director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for
Democracy & Technology -- said, "The market for those tools has been a
little soft I think because people have really had to hand enter in the data or
scan [them] in, as opposed to being able to feed [the information] directly
from a provider's electronic health record, unless they happen to be a patient
at Kaiser or part of a system that already offers them that tool."
However, she said, "That's going to change in 2014 when a lot of the early
adopters in the HITECH incentive program begin Stage 2 and start actively
encouraging patients to view and potentially download and transmit their
data."
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