Patient's access to medical records.

Confidentiality Preserving Audits of Electronic Medical Record Access

Failure to supply a care provider with timely access to a patient's medical record can lead to patient harm or death. As such, healthcare organizations often endow care providers with broad access privileges to electronic medical record (EMR) systems. In doing so, however, care providers may access a patient's record without legitimate purpose and violate patient privacy. Healthcare privacy off...

For the record.

The management of medical records in the current climate of fragmented and managed care has created very real and present difficulties for physicians. Florida law protects the patient's right to the medical record and insures confidentiality and access. Similar protections for physicians, to allocate the costs of 20th century record keeping fairly among the parties, and to insure the physician ...

A patient's right of access to medical 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...

A Problem-centric Organization and Visualization of Patient Imaging and Clinical Data Authors

A patient's electronic medical record contains a large amount of unstructured textual information. As patient records become increasingly dense because of an aging population and increased occurrence of chronic diseases, a tool is needed to help organize and navigate patient data in a way that facilitates a clinician's ability to understand this information to improve their efficiency. We have ...