The impact of transitioning from availability of outside records within electronic health records to integration of local and outside records within electronic health 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...

Hybrid Electronic Health Records

The research related with digital health records is has been a hot topic since the last two decades, producing diverse results namely two main types – Electronic Health Records and Personal Health Records. Based on those types of records different implementations appeared, although new challenges also emerged. The wider citizen mobility, liberalization of health care providing, alternative medi...

Electronic health records.

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Electronic health records lifecycle cost.

We have overestimated the ability of electronic health records (EHR) systems to enhance efficiency by eliminating transcription and the need to physically pull charts. Hospital managers typically underestimate the costs of upgrade fees and support. To avoid this problem, hospitals must develop a full total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to independently forecast total lifecycle costs for EHR ...

Electronic health records: who pays?