Public Standards and Patients Control: How to Keep Electronic Medical Records Accessible But Private
- Topics:
- Healthcare Services
- Tags:
- E-health,
- Electronic Health Record,
- Healthcare,
- Medical Record,
- Patient,
- Public Health,
- Standards
- Source:
- BMJ Publishing Group
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Overview: A patient's medical records are generally fragmented across multiple treatment sites, posing an obstacle to clinical care, research, and public health efforts. Electronic medical records and the internet provide a technical infrastructure on which to build longitudinal medical records that can be integrated across sites of care. Choices about the structure and ownership of these records will have profound impact on the accessibility and privacy of patient information.
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Format: PDF | Size: 186KB | Date: Feb 2001 | Pages: 5




