Confidentiality of patient records

Availability versus Confidentiality of Electronic Health Records

Digitization of healthcare data is an ongoing process that will eventually lead to large nationwide information systems where sensitive medical data is stored. An important issue in this process is the protection of patients’ privacy. Applying security measures so that a desired level of privacy protection can be attained has proven to be an interesting and difficult problem when considering th...

The Confidentiality of Medical Quality Assurance Records

Confidentiality of medical records: the patient's perspective.

BACKGROUND The development of modern information technology and the increasing amount of multidisciplinary teamwork in primary health care mean that the principle of patient confidentiality is becoming difficult to uphold. The debate about confidentiality so far has paid little attention to patients' views. AIM A qualitative study was undertaken to explore patients' expectations and attitudes...

Privacy, confidentiality, and electronic medical records.

The enhanced availability of health information in an electronic format is strategic for industry-wide efforts to improve the quality and reduce the cost of health care, yet it brings a concomitant concern of greater risk for loss of privacy among health care participants. The authors review the conflicting goals of accessibility and security for electronic medical records and discuss nontechni...

Research Paper: Attitudes of First-year Medical Students Toward the Confidentiality of Computerized Patient Records

OBJECTIVES To investigate the attitudes of students entering medical school toward the confidentiality of computerized medical records. DESIGN First-year medical students at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine responded to a series of questions about a hypothetic breach of patient's privacy through a computerized patient record system. MEASUREMENTS The individual authors independen...