Many Spaniards are unaware of online medical history

He 64.1% of the Spanish population has never consulted their medical history online; of these, the 34.6% points out that he has not done so because he was unaware that this option existed, while the 21.5% The reason is that he does not know or cannot use the Internet.

This is revealed by the second wave of Health Barometer 2025made by Ministry of Health and the Sociological Research Center (CIS) from 2,318 telephone surveys held last July. It should be noted that the use of electronic medical records has increased 2.2% compared to the first wave of this year.

According to the results, the 55.7% of the population does not know that doctors from one autonomous community can electronically consult the clinical reports of a patient they are caring for in another autonomous community.

Apart from this, the 20.6% claims to know and have used the electronic prescription to withdraw medications from the pharmacy outside their autonomous community. Meanwhile, the 45.3% indicates knowing this function, but not having used it, and a 32% I didn’t know it.

Artificial intelligence

Regarding the development of artificial intelligence (AI), more than half of respondents (53.8%) have heard about new tools of this type applied to the healthcare field.

However, at 50.1% of the population would find it totally uncomfortable to talk to a virtual assistant during a medical consultation; he 36.3% thinks the same about undergoing a surgical operation performed by a robot; and for him 40.9% It would be the same for him if an AI had to follow the evolution of his illness.

Furthermore, the 46.4% expresses concern about the use of its clinical data by private companies to develop an AI tool applied to health. If this use were made by public institutions, the concern descends to a 35.6%.

In the same line, the 69.2% considers that the use of artificial intelligence in health and health services should be specifically legislated. He 85.2% believes that patients should be informed when health services use AI in their care and the 78.9% says that patients should be given the opportunity to refuse to have their clinical data used to develop artificial intelligence systems.