• Study Findings on the Impact of HIT:

  • Knowledge about the impact of HIT can further acceptance by consumers
    
• National survey results reports public opinion toward electronic personal health records, including consumers’ level of interest, the benefits of and concerns about online health information, and the role of the government in encouraging health information exchange networks and establishing privacy protections:
  • The 2006 survey found that Americans want Electronic Personal Health Information to Improve Own Health Care
    
• eHI's Fourth Annual Health Information Exchange Survey Findings:

  • Consumer's knowledge about HIE is important, for example, in cases where a consumer may be involved in the governance of the HIE
    
• This Employee Benefit Research Institute October 2008 report reveals that: Electronic medical records supported but distrusted: Americans generally feel centrally maintained electronic medical records that can be shared by authorized health care providers areimportant, but they have reservations about confidentiality. Sixty-two percent indicate they are not too or not at all confident that such records would remain confidential.

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• Harris Interactive Survey Findings:

  • "Few Patients Use or Have Access to Online Services for Communicating with their Doctors, but Most Would Like To"
    
• Harris Interactive on Behalf of the American Academy of Family Physicians Conducted a Survey that Examined Women's Opinion on Fixing Healthcare

  • Page 8 addresses Women's opinion on HIT
    
• Harris Interactive Survey on the Use of the Internet to Manage Care

  • California Respondents - Scroll to the bottom of the page for the full
• California Healthcare Foundation's National Health Privacy Consumer Survey

  • The consumer's concern over health privacy when their health information is accessible to the employer - survey findings
• California Healthcare Foundation's State of HIT survey findings

  • The consumer's perspective is discussed.
• CareSpark Survey

  • This survey is brief but asks the consumer in Tennessee very important questions on sharing of information and results are presented.
• HISPC - Nebraska Findings

  • This HISPC report provides consumer survey results about privacy and electronic health information exchange. It also includes personal interview stories.
• eHI Findings

  • This report provides consumer survey results supporting that majority of consumers favor secure HIE.
• Health Privacy Project - Health Privacy Polling Data

  • This report includes data from several sources. The findings may not be current but could be useful for trending.
• Innovation Valley Health Information Network Survey:
• Consumer - Patient Survey to gauge the needs of the community regarding personal health information and the functionality of day-to-day use of a health information network.