Control and use of health information: a doctor's perspective

Abstract

The electronic health record offers all advantages of computer based memories. It is accessible over networks, highly structured and allows exchange of information both within the institution and across its borders. However, it has potential disadvantages among which a great risk for confidentiality, integrity and availability of information about identifiable patients exists. The present paper discusses advantages and disadvantages of the electronic health record as well as methods in order to control and use appropriately identifiable patient data. Personal data protection requires a legislation, a code of conduct, information contracts, an organisation under the responsibility of a physician, technical tools for health security, risk analysis methods, standards for development and implementation of computer systems as well as training and teaching sessions.

A Secure Electronic Prescription System

“…), clinical information is required to be accessible in any time and its storage is also retained for a long time. [13] The propose described in this paper aims to improve an EPS that interacts with several electronic prescription software developed by third party companies (TPC), more specifically the Portuguese EPS. [14] For this kind of scenarios, is important to invest in a system with safe communications between the various health entities.…”