Whoa, hold on there. HIPAA generally gives patients the right to access their medical records [1], but I don&#x27;t think it says anything about whether they &quot;own&quot; it in the sense that they get to edit the data to their liking (I don&#x27;t believe they do, in the US), and it certainly doesn&#x27;t say anything about copyright.<p>Most of the HN crowd (and myself) would probably say that the ideal situation is for patients to own copyright and other rights in medical data generated about them, but I don&#x27;t think this issue has actually been settled, either in a cultural or a legal sense [2].<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hhs.gov&#x2F;hipaa&#x2F;for-professionals&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;access&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hhs.gov&#x2F;hipaa&#x2F;for-professionals&#x2F;privacy&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medscape.com&#x2F;viewarticle&#x2F;837393" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medscape.com&#x2F;viewarticle&#x2F;837393</a>