Who owns your medical tests results and your personal health data? Such a vexing question cuts to the core of personal liberty and freedom of information.

Dossia, a non-profit consortium of large employers, announced today two new founding members and a healthcare advisor and technology collaborator, updating its progress toward the development of private, personal, portable and secure health records for its employees and their dependents, plus retirees.

Storing essential medical information under the skin could be possible as now a grain size device implanted with a needle could give emergency room doctors quick access to the records of chronically ill patients.

"ACP strongly believes in the goal of widespread adoption and use of health information technology to improve quality of care," Michael H. Zaroukian, MD, PhD, FACP, told the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality today at their hearing on "Consumer Controls for Sensitive Health Records."