Who should access electronic patient records

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2008

Authors

ferreira, a (Author) FMUP; antunes, l (Author) FCUP; pinho, c (Author) Other; sa, c (Author) Other; mendes, e (Author) Other; santos, e (Author) Other; silva, f (Author) Other; sousa, f (Author) Other; gomes, f (Author) Other; abreu, f (Author) Other; mota, f (Author) Other; aguiar, f (Author) Other; faria, f (Author) Other; macedo, f (Author) Other; martins, s (Author) Other; cruz-correia, r (Author) FMUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: HEALTHINF 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTH INFORMATICS, VOL 1

Pages: 182-+

1st International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2008)

Funchal, PORTUGAL, JAN 28-31, 2008

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

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Authenticus ID: P-005-5YW

Abstract (EN): Access control to Electronic Patient Records (EPR) may greatly depend on users' objectives and needs. The purpose of this study is to assess the opinions of medical doctors within a university hospital towards access control to an EPR. We selected a randomized sample of 58 doctors from a university hospital and 45 structured interviews were applied. 42 respondents (93%) agree with the existence of access control levels to patient information according to healthcare professionals' category and 31 (69%) think that more sensitive information (e.g. HIV) should be accessed only by doctors that treat those patients. As 24 doctors (53%) feel that there is no need for them to see all information about all the patients, 41 (91%) think that nurses should not be able to do it also. Further, 31 doctors (69%) believe that patients themselves should not access their full medical record. These results show that it is very hard to get to a consensual policy regarding access control to. EPR by its regular users. There is therefore the need for a multidisciplinary agreement that can include healthcare professionals' experiences and needs in order to define the most appropriate and efficient way to perform access control to the EPR.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 2