Who should access electronic patient records

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2008

Autores

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

Ata de Conferência Internacional

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

Páginas: 182-+

1st International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2008)

Funchal, PORTUGAL, JAN 28-31, 2008

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Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências exactas e naturais > Ciências da computação e da informação

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ID Authenticus: 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.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 2