NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital hopes to offer all of its patients access to their personal health records online. The NY Times reports the hospital, which has been working with Microsoft for a year, is starting the rollout with heart surgery patients. On the myNYP.org website, you'll see cardiac surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, familiar to many from his appearances on Oprah Winfrey's show—he tells the Times that many of his patients are referrals outside the hospital, "When they arrive, Dr. Oz said, they typically come in with incomplete paper records and patchy recollections of past care. When they leave the hospital, he added, they get paper records of their care and a check-list of reminders." Which Dr. Oz thinks is "dangerous and cumbersome" because many mistakes could be made, whereas an online record "can be accessed by the patient and, with permission, relatives and a patient’s personal physician" and easier for patients to keep up with their care. The federal stimulus bill has $19 billion set aside for creating electronic medical records; Tampa Bay is working on digitizing all prescriptions and records in a 10-county area.