Confidential medical records and epidemiological research.

Using Patient Medical Records for Medical Research

of research findings. Therefore, governance committees (institutional review board) have tended to take a strict position regarding medical research involving human subjects, based on the declaration of Helsinki. There are a few limitations to using EMR data as one of the first steps in identifying individuals with a specific condition and proving simple and more complex research questions. Car...

Consent for release of confidential disciplinary records.

Using patient records for medical research.

1 addressed several issues concerning uses of patient data for medical research, which are important for general practice. The primary concern of GPs, with respect to uses of patient records, is to do nothing that jeopardises the trust of patients, which is partly based on assurances of confidentiality concerning the content of consultations. The Academy report quotes one submission in response...

Perspectives on electronic medical records adoption: electronic medical records (EMR) in outcomes research

Health information technology (HIT) is engineered to promote improved quality and efficiency of care, and reduce medical errors. Healthcare organizations have made significant investments in HIT tools and the electronic medical record (EMR) is a major technological advance. The Department of Veterans Affairs was one of the first large healthcare systems to fully implement EMR. The Veterans Heal...

SHAMAN Research and Implementation of an Electronic Medical Records System

In the recent decades the importance of the information systems (IS) has been steadily growing. Nowadays most of the operations that imply complex manipulations with data and storage of large volumes of data are being automated through the use of various IS. One of the areas where the use of an integrated IS can be considered as a must is medicine. There are many different types of systems that...