An Interesting Week With Two Academic Papers Appearing on The Privacy / Confidentiality / Utility Aspects Of The My Health Record.

Here is the first:The My Health Record System: Potential to Undermine the Paradigm of Patient Confidentiality?AuthorsGabrielle Wolf and Danuta MendelsonAustralia ’s national electronic health records system – known as the ‘My Health Record (‘MHR’) system’ – may threaten to undermine the traditional paradigm of patient confidentiality within the therapeutic relationship. Historically, patients have felt comfortable imparting sensitive informatio n to their health practitioners on the understanding that such disclosures are necessary and will be relied on principally for the purpose of treating them. The MHR system potentially facilitates access to patients’ health information by individuals and entities beyond the practitioners who are di rectly providing them with healthcare and, in some circumstances, without the patients’ consent. It may also enable patients’ health practitioners and their employees to read records that those practitioners did not create or receive in the course of...
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 3, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs