Even as healthcare tasks continue to move online around the world, statistics show that at least half of the patients in the West can’t access their health information online. This finding is quite notable considering the recent push for patient engagement and transparency of health information around the world.

A recent survey conducted in the US may be taken as an example to understand the growing awareness about health-related information among patients. A US survey of approximately 500 individuals indicated that nearly 74 percent of healthcare consumers thought that having easy, electronic access to their health records would keep them more informed of their general health, and would help them make better health decisions.

Healthcare experts, while considering the need for patients to have access to health care data, also point out the importance of privacy and protection of such a data. The sharing of information between the provider and the patient should be advanced enough for stakeholders to be able to electronically access health records without compromising on the security or privacy.

Today’s aware patients want transparency when it comes to information related to their health. In addition, such an excess is essential to managing health and every consumer (patient) has the right to know.

The said survey has pointed out two essential elements of healthcare tools and platforms: Easy online access to health data for patients and security of this information. More and more healthcare providers are realizing that patients are customers, and healthcare services should be marketed and tailored to their specific needs at each turn in their patient journey. And one of the ways to ensure this is to give patients complete transparency of their health journey through secure online platforms.

This kind of transparency also helps in bringing about accountability in hospitals and clinics and enables them to provide better quality health care services to the patients. And only those hospitals or healthcare institutions will survive in future who would seamlessly provide these services in a tech-savvy environment.

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