Navigenics has joined healthcare leaders across the country to support a new Declaration of Health Data Rights.
The statement aims to ensure patients’ ability to access and share their own personal health information.
The declaration, which appears on the website HealthDataRights.org, was drafted in response to the difficulties many patients have reported experiencing while attempting to obtain their personal medical records from hospitals, health plans and doctors.
It stipulates that we should have the right to access our own health information so that we can make the best medical decisions for ourselves.
The tenets are simple. The document declares that we the people: