Question

Presume this class is the Legal Health Record policy committee. After brainstorming all of the different types of data and protected health information we might find in our institution, discuss your findings. Our second task is to determine whether and why each type of data or information should be included in our legal health record. Discuss the different types of data and information that should be included in the Legal Health Record and why each should be included.

Answer 1

Legal Health Record policy committee is very effective and it helps to solve the conflicts regarding health issues. It also leads to the transparency of the health system. The data should be protected in the centralized system and in this system the government gets the statistics of the whole nation. The system is effective because it helps the government to take new policy. The development of the medical system and the effectiveness of the various policies are also clear in this system. Besides, there should be a separate system where the statistics of the various survey report and the progress of various policy should be mentioned.

In the data, the patient's record should be preserved in the code number. No personal information should be mentioned there. The data should be preserved in the top security and there should be the liability of the concerned authority to maintain privacy policy. In the system the following data should be recorded:

• The name of the disease
• The cause of the diseases
• The mental disease
• The treatment procedure
• Patient's age and sex
• Locality where the patient lives
• Some related personal information like marital status, environmental condition, parental disease, early disease and so on.