looking at your most personal information.na >> reporter: thle affordable care act, better known as obamaa providers to switch to electronic health e records. the move is intended to reduce cost and improve patient care. >> we have a tremendous amountmu of our information about our patients, but the problem is that information is not easily accessible to everyone on theon patient care team. >> the thing that i worry aboutt is not that we're doing it, but that we're doing it without the right safeguards. >> reporter:ly chang an attorney with the electronic frontier foundation is concerned about the security of the medical information and how it can beio used.. >> like any on electronic data it gets sold and you have no ve idea where it went. >> reporter: consolidating vast amount of information on a central database, creates a big target for the these. >> if that gets out and is compromised it's at increased risk over what we look at today as far as identity theft is concerned. >> reporter: if there's a breach, identity thieves could use, private medical informatiom such an cancer, stds to