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Every diagnosis, treatment, and doctor's appointment I'd had since 2003 was on the Internet. All I needed to get them was a phone call to my insurance company and information other people might know, such as my Social Security number, date of birth and address. Someone's spouse in the middle of a divorce could try to access personal health information. An employer could try to do the same. And what about hackers? If a 17-year-old year old can hack into an iPhone, couldn't someone just as clever get into my insurance company's Web site?
Two years ago, Dr. Jim Jirjis CQ ordered a CT scan for his patient Doug Smith, who was having searing chest pain. Jirjis heard from the radiologist that Smith's heart was just fine.
"I was relieved and immediately called him on the telephone and said, 'Great news,' " says Jirjis, an internist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
Thanks to Vanderbilt's online medical records, Doug could read the CT scan report himself. Several pages in, he saw something Jirjis hadn't: The radiologist had noticed a lesion on the right side of his thyroid.
That lesion turned out to be cancer. It was caught early, when it could be treated easily.
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- Absolutely, there are risks associated with online medical records
- In some sense, no one can ever really know about the data they hand over, whether it's financial data or medical data or anything else," Angelotti says. "In some sense you can never be truly protected. But if we can't protect people's personal information, they wouldn't trust us and use our products.
- Making the most out of your medical records will require some work. While some information is relatively easy to understand (like Doug Smith's lesion on his thyroid), other information is confusing "medspeak."
  
  
  
  Group Health, a health care system based in Seattle, Washington, offers the Healthwise Knowledgebase to its patients. Accessible to anyone, it has definitions of various diagnoses, medications, and medical tests.
  The Medical Library Association offers a "deciphering medspeak" glossary, and a list of commonly used medical abbreviations. Labtestsonline has an A-Z guide to common medical tests.

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