Abstract
Adolescents’ confidence that their health information will be confidential is essential to an open, trusting patient-provider relationship. Some elements of adolescent confidentiality are protected by state and/or federal laws. However, the recent final ruling on implementation of the federal 21st Century Cures Act, which was designed to improve patients’ access to their electronic health records (EHR), lacks sufficient safeguards to protect adolescent confidentiality. As a result of the Cures Act, parents with proxy access to their child’s medical chart can now more easily obtain confidential information that the patient has the right to protect.
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