WHO SHOULD ACCESS ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORDS

doi:https://doi.org/10.5220/0001039401820185

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WHO SHOULD ACCESS ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORDS

Ana Ferreira,Luís Antunes,Crisbety Pinho,Clarissa Azevedo Sá,Eugênio Vilaça Mendes,Estêvão Soares dos Santos+10 more-2008-01-01

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Access control to Electronic Patient Records (EPR) may greatly depend on users’ objectives and needs. The purpose of this study is to assess the opinions of medical doctors within a university hospital towards access control to an EPR. We selected a randomized sample of 58 doctors from a university hospital and 45 structured interviews were applied. 42 respondents (93%) agree with the existence of access control levels to patient information according to healthcare professionals’ category and 31 (69%) think that more sensitive information (e.g. HIV) should be accessed only by doctors that treat those patients. As 24 doctors (53%) feel that there is no need for them to see all information about all the patients, 41 (91%) think that nurses should not be able to do it also. Further, 31 doctors (69%) believe that patients themselves should not access their full medical record. These results show that it is very hard to get to a consensual policy regarding access control to EPR by its regul

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Access control to Electronic Patient Records (EPR) may greatly depend on users’ objectives and needs. The purpose of this study is to assess the opinions of medical doctors within a university hospital towards access control to an EPR. We selected a randomized sample of 58 doctors from a university hospital and 45 structured interviews were applied. 42 respondents (93%) agree with the existence of access control levels to patient information according to healthcare professionals’ category and 31 (69%) think that more sensitive information (e.g. HIV) should be accessed only by doctors that treat those patients. As 24 doctors (53%) feel that there is no need for them to see all information about all the patients, 41 (91%) think that nurses should not be able to do it also. Further, 31 doctors (69%) believe that patients themselves should not access their full medical record. These results show that it is very hard to get to a consensual policy regarding access control to EPR by its regul

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Medical recordControl (management)Access controlHealth professionalsMultidisciplinary approachHealth careInformation needsSample (material)

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