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New Do No Harm Report Exposes How Parents Are Being Denied Access to Children’s Medical Records
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RICHMOND, VA; October 28, 2025 — Today, medical watchdog Do No Harm released a new report exposing how prominent medical systems and providers use electronic healthcare records (EHRs) to restrict parental access to children’s medical records, enabling providers to hide aspects of pediatric medical transition from parents.
The report, “Parental Access to Their Children’s Medical Records is Under Attack,” reveals how woke medical systems are limiting parents’ “proxy” access to their children’s medical records. These include restrictions that have been extended well beyond the limits of the law, thereby opening the door for hospitals to push a harmful gender ideology and sex change interventions on children.
“There is a heavy responsibility linked to medical decision making, one that children are not equipped to bear alone—nor should they,” said Kurt Miceli, MD, Medical Director of Do No Harm. “Our report calls out the policies, systems, and proxy configurations that put children directly in harm’s way by removing parental protection. The Privacy Law does not permit, nor is it intended to remove lawful parental access during their child’s developmental years. We are calling upon our colleagues in healthcare, to remember that their first and most important commitment is to do no harm, and to stop putting children at great risk during an age of confusion and vulnerability, particularly when they lack full cognitive maturity.”
“The Epic-Oracle duopoly provides the framework for activist physicians to funnel minors into the gender cult without parental knowledge or consent,” said Michelle Havrilla, CRNP, Director of Programs of Do No Harm. “From doctors asking kids about their sexuality to parents being blocked from their child’s medical decisions, transgender politics are increasingly pushed on children—and EHR companies design the systems that enable and sometimes encourage this. This report should be a wake-up call to legislators and medical professionals across the country: empower parents, protect kids, fix the system.”
Main Takeaways from the Report:
- Epic, the most used electronic health record system, holds 41% of the US hospital EHR market. Oracle is the second most used system and holds 22% of the market.
- Both systems embed gender ideology within their functionality by asking patients their preferred pronouns, sex “assigned” at birth, and gender identity.
- EHR companies across the country are recommending the ages at which parents’ “proxy” access might be removed or limited due to their own understanding of how federal and state legislation guarantees privacy rights for children.
- For instance, Oracle Health uses 13 as the default protected status age, enabling minors to be influenced by gender ideology without the knowledge of their parents.
- Health systems in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Washington State all exhibit evidence of limiting parents’ medical record access. Children as young as 12 have independent access and control over their medical records.
- In Florida and Oregon, health systems ask parents of toddlers to fill out surveys asking for their child’s “sex at birth,” “preferred pronouns,” and their “internal sense of self.”
Do No Harm, established in April 2022, has rapidly gained recognition and made significant strides in its mission to safeguard healthcare from ideological threats. It has over 50,000 members, including doctors, nurses, physicians, and concerned citizens across all 50 states and 14 countries.
