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This chapter outlines the need for full patient access to their healthcare records and reports on hypothetical and real-life UK-based scenarios. These serve to illustrate the importance of supporting patients, clinicians and managers to understand how personal health information can be shared across a health and social care setting and to promote best practice by combining local expertise with national and international experience and knowledge.
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Hannan, A. (2012). Citizen eMPOWERment. In: Wickramasinghe, N., Bali, R., Suomi, R., Kirn, S. (eds) Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-health Solutions. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1536-7_15
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