Access to health records

Emergency Access to Protected Health Records

Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes are receiving increased attention in the healthcare domain for the protection of sensitive health records as they offer security against insider attacks and advance protection features such as usage control. However, to be accepted by health care providers, a DRM solution has to fulfill specific healthcare requirements including emergency access. In this ...

Privacy and Access to Electronic Health Records

The special relationship of trust that needs to exist between a patient and his or her physician has been recognized since the origins of the profession, and the need for doctors to keep confidential any information disclosed to them is codified in the Hippocratic Oath. A distinctive feature of the health records which arises from this relationship is the intimate nature of the information that...

Access to Health Records Act, 1990.

Contextualized Access to Electronic Health Records - Application to Hospital Interoperability

Everyday more hospitals develop their own Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems to improve the accessibility to the information on it. There are some standards and proposals to homogenize the structure of these EHR, but they use to be so generic, that the final EHR structure has so many particularities that is different in each hospital. This situation has created a huge problem of interoperab...

Patient access to electronic health records during hospitalization.

Author Contributions:Drs Mendu andWaikar had full access to all the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Study concept and design:Mendu, Aizer, Steele, Waikar. Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: All authors. Drafting of the manuscript: Steele, Mendu. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intelle...