In: Nursing
HCI112
Q: Dr. Buthainah is a family physician who refuses the use of EHR in her clinic because she believes that her patients' health information is not secure in the EHR. As a health informatics specialist, write a 150-200 words letter explaining to her actions that have been taken by governments and professional bodies to safeguard EHR data.
The letter to Dr. Buthaniah must (may) include the following information - - - - EHR is the Electronic Health Record of patients.
It contains all the information of the patient like - symptoms, treatment, medication, test report, post operative condition and pre operative condition of the patient, history, present condition.
Patients should not worry about the information. It provides convenience for the physicians to collect the whole information of patients before treatment at a single spot.
Government is developing this EHR in the every possible way.
The data in the EHR is safe because has its own unique identifier for every patient earlier it wasn't safe because low security.
Concerned about the patient data the government developed EHR privacy systems systemic review and registration protocol.
Systemic review will be done by guidelines of PRISMA.
It is Dr's decision to make EHR or not after knowing all the facts.