BACKGROUND Electronic patient portals may enhance effective interaction between the patient and the health care provider. To grasp the full potential of patient portals, health care providers need more knowledge on which patient groups prefer electronic services and how patients should be served through this channel. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess how chronically ill pati...

Adolescent depression, has been identified as one of the important risk factors for adolescent safety. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends screening the adolescent population for depression with a validated screening tool at least once a year. Given the time constraints in primary care, many physicians tend to rely more on clinical questioning to screen depression.This has the p...

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...

C. Tanner1; D. Gans4; J. White1; R. Nath2; J. Pohl3 1Michigan Public Health Institute, Okemos, Michigan, United States; 2Colorado Hospital Association, Center for Health Information and Data Analytics, Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States; 3The University of Michigan, School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States; 4Medical Group Management Association, Englewood, Colorado, United ...

Providing excellent eye care requires excellent record keeping and data collection. Why? Because good record keeping ensures continuity of eye care, fulfils medico-legal requirements, and is professional! Good data collection, based on good record keeping, supports health management information systems (see article on page 50), hospital audit (page 48), scientific research (page 43) and provide...

Sharing electronic patient records without compromising individual’s privacy and confidentiality is a key challenge in adoption of distributed, electronic healthcare systems. To address this issue, it is necessary to ensure that a sender can trust the receiver and its environment to correctly implement its policy and vice versa, while sharing electronic patient records. This paper proposes an a...

BACKGROUND Patient portals (ie, electronic personal health records tethered to institutional electronic health records) are recognized as a promising mechanism to support greater patient engagement, yet questions remain about how health care leaders, policy makers, and designers can encourage adoption of patient portals and what factors might contribute to sustained utilization. OBJECTIVE The...

introduction: patient- centered and perspective approach which prefers prevention to cure, to improve and promote the services and care, not only recognizes free flow of patient’s information, but also concurrently is concerned about maintaining security and privacy as an important feature of health care system. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of accessibility and privacy of...